piracy is a farce create by BG who knows how to. Want to stop piracy, allow ppl to own what they buy and install it as many time as they want. problem over. :-!
MS gets most of their $$$ from the big manufacturers anyway. JMO fp At 02:46 PM 3/29/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with: >This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy for >their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft than >hackable Windows being sold pours in. > >Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed such >as the BIOS on motherboards. > >What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build the >authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to start with >a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been hacked. > >Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would not >be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades would be >impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only one version, >the best! > >Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to the >CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be carried >forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that require new >computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an industry that >specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that authorized that >version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in order to move up to >a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new computer with a new CPU. > >Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my ideas >are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest problem >with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft refuses to use >a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever heard of altering >or flashing a CPU? > >Chuck -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Money is round, it rolls away.
