Microsoft to add more anti-piracy features to Office 2010

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It's been said before, but it bears repeating

If Microsoft spent anywhere near the time it spends policing piracy on
feature correctness, and bug squashing, there would be much less need to
worry about piracy.

Most people know that there are many ways to get Office cheaply and
legitimately, and no one I know pirates it, because the updates are needed -
otherwise things are left unrepaired causing more problems.

It is odd that on my laptop, which runs Windows XP SP3, legitimately and
fully patched, with the only other Microsoft products being the Office
Viewers (not full programs), I got a Windows Office Genuine (dis)Advantage
notification update add-in as part of an updates Tuesday. What is there to
be Advantaged? AFAIK, no one is counterfeiting the viewers.

Everything else on this machine is freeware, a fact I am proud of, and it
really irked me that the time was wasted to send this down the line as a
part of updates.

To me, this WGA garbage is as big a waste as the Easter Eggs that show up -
a company interested in being business-like would eliminate both, as they
are a waste of my disk space, and WGA, a waste of my time.

Posted by: chrome_slinky@...   Posted on: 08/27/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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