Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:30 UTC
Windows XP is turning five years old, but will anybody want to celebrate the occasion? Microsoft's long-anticipated replacement for 'Win 9x' - the series of releases that began with Windows 95 and ended with Windows Millennium Edition - was never supposed to stick around this long. But half a decade after it began shipping on new computers (followed a month later by its retail debut), XP lingers.
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2006-01-03
I don't know about their business models, but I do know that you could get out of the OrCAD and AutoCAD activation treadmill by installing a crack (and I believe you can with XP too). It is funny how these contrived schemes end up f--king up the paying customers, while the pirates sail unbothered.
As programmable logic design packages, I don't use them any more, but I believe they have dropped from incredibly expensive to free as in beer, because what is important having customers buy their chips, not use their software. That took them long to find out, though.