Thursday, December 6th 2007
Vista Counterfeit Rate Claimed to be Half That of XP
Despite Microsoft initially blaming disappointing sales figures on software pirates, the company's Vice President of Windows Product Marketing, Michael Sievert, has now claimed that the piracy rate for Windows Vista is actually half that of XP. In an interview, he said:
Source:
DailyTech
While piracy rates are hard to measure precisely, we're seeing indications from internal metrics, like WGA validation failures, that the Windows Vista piracy rate is less than half that of Windows XP today.Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is putting this down to the fact that Vista is harder to counterfeit. However, some analysts are suggesting that it may be linked to the fact that even pirates expect a stable operating system, and perhaps they choose to use Windows XP over Vista for reasons such as that rather than because they lack the means to pirate it. Of course, another explanation could be that software pirates have actually found a way to counterfeit Windows without being detected, which would also account for the lower rate of WGA validation failures.
28 Comments on Vista Counterfeit Rate Claimed to be Half That of XP
Microsoft's new anti-piracy plan--Just make something nobody wants to pirate.
I thought exactly the same,
Why would any WANT Vista? I had it, returned it, went back to XP, I got about -20-50 fps less on Vista on most games compared to XP...
Microsoft! its not that its harder to pirate!, its that Vista is crap compared to XP!!! ¬_¬
Daniel
It runs fluid like XP did. Has a better GUI(big thing for me), and ALL my applications work on it flawlessly.
The ONLY thing that gets to me about Vista is I have to disable driver signing each time I boot the machine up if I want to overclock my graphics card.
"bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS"
I do not have to disable it each time in 32bit Ultimate and it is supposed to work in 64bit also.
trog
End Of Story:laugh:
I can understand the amount of piracy that's happening with Vista though (even though it's less than XP and it's harder to pirate)...The product itself isn't worth the price in my opinion. Granted, this is coming from a college student who doesn't have a huge surplus of money. Either way though, I don't think Vista is worth the price, but that's Microsoft for you.
:toast:
Thats pretty pathetic, how sad. You just show yourself up as a nooblet, for I am certainly not.
:slap: