bigearth
11-13-2006, 02:29 PM
Vista already getting passed around the internet
It hasn't even been out of the nest (http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/08/microsoft-sez-all-done-on-vista/) a full week yet, but already those nefarious software pirates who drive prices up for everyone else have taken the little birdie known as Windows Vista (http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=vista) and begun passing it around the interwebs like a hot potato. A quick search of the more popular BitTorrent sites reveals that numerous copies of the RTM version of Vista are available for download, but being the law-abiding netizens that we are, we can't verify that these are actual working packages or simply 4GB archives of nasty spyware. We really shouldn't have expected anything different from the "free software movement" -- after all, the same thing happened (http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/15/leopard-running-free-across-the-internet/) with OS X Leopard after August's WWDC -- but we're sure Microsoft is pleased that this group of "early adopters" has given its latest and greatest product a de facto thumbs up. Just a friendly reminder to everyone who's taken it upon him / herself to load up a copy of the yet-to-be-released OS: enjoy it while you can, because once Redmond starts sending out updates and checking the validity of your install, that boatload of crippled features (http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/microsoft-will-cripple-pcs-running-pirated-copies-of-vista/) is going to make your PC a real pain in the ass to operate.
[Thanks, Monsieur Cedric]
link (http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/vista-already-getting-passed-around-the-internet/)
It hasn't even been out of the nest (http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/08/microsoft-sez-all-done-on-vista/) a full week yet, but already those nefarious software pirates who drive prices up for everyone else have taken the little birdie known as Windows Vista (http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=vista) and begun passing it around the interwebs like a hot potato. A quick search of the more popular BitTorrent sites reveals that numerous copies of the RTM version of Vista are available for download, but being the law-abiding netizens that we are, we can't verify that these are actual working packages or simply 4GB archives of nasty spyware. We really shouldn't have expected anything different from the "free software movement" -- after all, the same thing happened (http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/15/leopard-running-free-across-the-internet/) with OS X Leopard after August's WWDC -- but we're sure Microsoft is pleased that this group of "early adopters" has given its latest and greatest product a de facto thumbs up. Just a friendly reminder to everyone who's taken it upon him / herself to load up a copy of the yet-to-be-released OS: enjoy it while you can, because once Redmond starts sending out updates and checking the validity of your install, that boatload of crippled features (http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/microsoft-will-cripple-pcs-running-pirated-copies-of-vista/) is going to make your PC a real pain in the ass to operate.
[Thanks, Monsieur Cedric]
link (http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/vista-already-getting-passed-around-the-internet/)