Nah, to them when piracy occurs = losses.

Cheers!

the more glamarous the product is
the incentives to crack will get higher
the faster the product will get cracked

Agreeable that when there is piracy, there is losses. But if Profit margin is not high, how bad can the losses be? Not that bad, right? Cheers!

Profit margin not high? All the research and development put into producing Vista came from Microsoft's sales of software and services. They won't be selling Vista at a loss, even with this crack out. Who do you think the largest consumers of Microsoft's operating systems are, anyways? I can tell you right off the bat that most copies of Vista are going out to PC manufacturers at bulk prices and that very few consumers will ever purchase Vista out of a box on a store shelf. As long as people keep buying computers, Microsoft will keep turning a profit on its OS.

The losses is the time to get back the huge amount spent on R&D for the Vista software. If less people is using Vista, Microsoft will surely need more time to reach breakeven point. Time is money !

Could not agree more. Even though MS is a large co-operation and they might not mind spending money on R&D for Vista, it is still consider a loss for them.

Anyhow, as long as MS releases something new, its products tends to get exploited/hacked.

Profit is not high from OS? Then i wonder where Bill Pintu became the riches man in the world??

poor MS..... now this is a WOW thing to WOW about~~

MS probally foresaw this and include the loss from this in their product overheads, hence the super expensive price.

But kinda so fast being cracked liau hoh. I mean only bout a few month only..ehhehe

nice Paradox,poor MS

now isnt Dell also offer their new comp packages with NO OS preinstalled

Its was microsoft who actually gave the pirates a chance to exploit their activation system, otherwise, vista is really the uncrackable

m$ loophole

I think they need some hacker/cracker expert to find their OS hole.

MS goin to solve the hole soon.
I think if u get the vista now u can crack n use in the future.
Perhaps they will have some autoupdate to solve it.

I heard tat in vista, MS did something like trojan to let the MS ppl check whether u r using the ori version or not ori version. Is it true?

Nothing is perfect, even ATM machine can be cracked.

Why bother so much about cracking windows where the stupid nvidia is still not releasing their SLi driver?!Grrrr... stupid nvidia, curse you! But still like your GPU's

when there's piracy, there's not necessarily losses. in MS's case, it's just lesser profit.

but here's the thing - piracy actually helps Microsoft propagate the market.

Yeap, earn less... wait not earning less, their profits still increases. We should put it in this way "They did not earned what they supposed to get from that portion"

M$ did that loophole itself by allowing such a workaround to OEMs just because their users might not like it has introduced a weakness into the system.

p/s why are u guys seem so happy with m$ getting screwed?

wow so fast ............
paradox rulezz....

ya ya...
my friend bought a compaq lappy, got vista home basic..
seriously, i'm more comfortable using winxp...
the fancy gui makes me dizzy already.. maybe it's a damn new...

but wow.. jsut release already got cracked...

i'm thinking, sure got hole in their engineering team...