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shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:54 am

Hi , I'm a Mac .. And I'm a PC.. and I'm a Pirate...

Staring Steve Ballmer as the Pirate..

It could work.

Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales

Will crank up the WGA

By Nick Farrell: Monday 19 February 2007, 15:50
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37721

THE SHY and retiring, softly-spoken CEO of Microsoft, Steve "Sounds of Silence" Ballmer is blaming software pirates for Vista's poor sales.
Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved 'overly optimistic' and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.

He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from developing nations.

Ballmer believes that one way Microsoft can bump up Windows sales is to tighten the screws on pirates. "Piracy reduction can be a source of Windows revenue growth, and I think we'll make some piracy improvements this year."

He said that there was software within Windows Genuine Advantage which could be dialled up by the Vole to make it even more tougher for the pirates to take out.

He promised that the Vole would "really ferret through how far we can dial it up, and what that means for customer experience and customer satisfaction".

Of course he is ignoring the fact that a lot of people are not buying Vista because it does not offer much more than XP and Windows Genuine Advantage makes their lives a misery. Cranking up WGA might backfire.

zappen · Post by **zappen** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:35 am

shaneblyth wrote:what worries me is all the extra DRM built into Vista .. 99.99% of people have no idea there is a load of DRM under the hood for music movies and any sort of content let alone the stuff mentioned by Balmer in the article I pasted.

You have no idea of what you are talking about! And i can guess why, because you are a mac user, scared of DRM?
DRM protections doesn't affect you unless you buy/use DRM protected content, wich you are free to buy/use or not.
about the buggy bootcam, seeing so many mac users so desperate to want to run windows on a mac is like seeing them shoting in their own foot..

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:42 am

All I know is that there were rumors he was into field-hockey players....

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:50 pm

zappen wrote: You have no idea of what you are talking about! And i can guess why, because you are a mac user, scared of DRM?
DRM protections doesn't affect you unless you buy/use DRM protected content, wich you are free to buy/use or not.
about the buggy bootcam, seeing so many mac users so desperate to want to run windows on a mac is like seeing them shoting in their own foot..

Hmm ok actually in regard to your comments about myself you are the one that has no idea what you are talking about and i suppose I cant expect you to know about me personally

49 years old.. first pc was 8mhz 640k ram and floppies
for many years i have managed my own IT business building installing and maintaining large networks of MS based systems. I am a MS OEM. Yes I use a Mac at home.. sorry if you assume that makes me an idiot or ignorant. Hope i just cleared that one up. As for my source of info on The deeply embedded DRM which effects Vista I can point you to dozens of indepth articles Things like the voltage polling it does all the time to check , How MS has worked closely with media content providers to enable a very sophisticated set of DRM protocols in regards to all the newer Video disk formats and the like.. 1 article alone is about 20 pages , very indepth.
Still you can use something like google to find the stuff. I get between 250 and 300 news feeds a day on technogy as it is part of my job to keep up and advise my customers.
So thios DRM will in the future effect all forms of content you play.. I suppose you can not watch anything if you like
We expect it to be hidden in fee standing units like the xbox line as well.

Hope that clarifies things a little for you

zappen · Post by **zappen** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:15 pm

shaneblyth wrote:How MS has worked closely with media content providers to enable a very sophisticated set of DRM protocols in regards to all the newer Video disk formats and the like.. 1 article alone is about 20 pages , very indepth.
So thios DRM will in the future effect all forms of content you play.. I suppose you can not watch anything if you like

i'm not discussing of your background,it doesn't matter much..
You can use DRM content or not..is up to you, the content not protected with DRM will not affect your Vista usage. that's what i say.
At today most of the content is not protected with DRM, i'm not afraid that all content in the future will be DRM, prolly some will be and some not, at least it will be there for who wants to protect their digital work.
Consider also DRM has not been created just for music and videos, but also to control access to all kinds of documents (Microsoft Word, PDF, TIFF, AutoCAD files, etc)

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:46 am

zappen wrote:
shaneblyth wrote:How MS has worked closely with media content providers to enable a very sophisticated set of DRM protocols in regards to all the newer Video disk formats and the like.. 1 article alone is about 20 pages , very indepth.
So thios DRM will in the future effect all forms of content you play.. I suppose you can not watch anything if you like
i'm not discussing of your background,it doesn't matter much..
You can use DRM content or not..is up to you, the content not protected with DRM will not affect your Vista usage. that's what i say.
At today most of the content is not protected with DRM, i'm not afraid that all content in the future will be DRM, prolly some will be and some not, at least it will be there for who wants to protect their digital work.
Consider also DRM has not been created just for music and videos, but also to control access to all kinds of documents (Microsoft Word, PDF, TIFF, AutoCAD files, etc)

the only reason I made comment on my background is because you did.. claiming I didnt know what IWas talking about and making a nasty little comment in regards to the fact that I was a Mac user. Anyway I am not worried about that. I'm glad your not concerned. But it is interesting to note what they can do if they want to. I'd revist my comments in say 3-5 years and see, as we move more and more to online content. Anyway I expect you are correct that we will have other options. But we expect 90% of computer system will be on Vista based systems and therefore can be externally controlled shutting you out. I dont expect youve ever been on the recieving end of what 22% of XP users have (Statistic provided by Microsoft 4 months ago) when you find that they claim (through WGA Windows Geninue Advantage) ,you have an illegal copy of XP when it is actually genuine, Some of my customers where spitting tacks at being labeled a pirate . Vista can shut you out of your system automatically or remotely as MS wants. There is alot more remote control in there by a mile than XP ever had. Thats the main thing quite a few people are pretty annoyed at and of course if you want to buy a new PC you have no choice but to pay for Vista. MS claims that if u currently own XP and upgrade to Vista you can go backwards. Havnt tried this and cant really see how that could be accurate.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:10 am

smutek wrote:All I know is that there were rumors he was into field-hockey players....

Jumping in the deep-end with the Pixie quotes...

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:55 am

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:07 pm

Vista lol.