"A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational. Unlike cracks which have been floating around since Vista RTM was released in late November, this crack doesn't simply get around product activation with beta activation files or timestop cracks - it actually makes use of the activation process."
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I have seen it for 250€ (329$) but that is the OEM Version. The drawback of the OEM Version is that you have to decide if you want the 32 bit version or the 64 bit version, because only the retail version includes both.
Maybe we germans get butfu**ed extreastrong here, but it is much nore expensive everywhere outside the US than it is over there. But anyway, even 300$ would be outrageous for Vista since it realy doesn't come with that many new features.
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I totally agree, and the same can be said of cracking expensive Windows applications. If everyone always had to pay for every proprietary program, free software would be much more applealing. Proprietary software vendors know it, and they let some piracy happen, because big enterprise, universities and OEMs do have to pay them.
Member since:2005-12-31
> Stoping people from feeling the cost-pain of Windows Vista is just
> hurting the alternatives. Ultimate costs 699 US $ in europe (529€). That
> made the decision for me to switch to Linux for work. Cracking Vista is
> advertising Microsoft.
You could also say: People use cracks for Vista, which is cumbersome at least and involves unknown legal dangers, *despite* the fact that they could instead use an alternative. Interesting...
Member since:2005-07-06
You could also say: People use cracks for Vista, which is cumbersome at least and involves unknown legal dangers, *despite* the fact that they could instead use an alternative. Interesting...
Indeed you could, for the plain fact that most people are sheep, and most sheeple think they need Microsoft products.
Most sheeple think Windows is the computer.
Also, most sheeple think the newer the version, the better the product.
Same sort of sheeple got hit bad by the "Megapixel Myth" with digital cameras.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
Member since:2006-05-29
Yeah, because there are people who:
- Want to play games, which sucks on any other OS
- Are afraid of beeing incapable to use an other OS
- Falsly assume they need Windows for what they are doing
- Correctly assume they need Windows for what they are doing because no Software exists for what they are doing on Linux (not so rare) and even on Mac OS (very rare)
That does not say much about the qualities of Windows and in my own personal opinion the price of a full computer isn't a sane price for a little GUI overhaul and a little security overhaul (which i didn't have much trouble with in XP either).
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2006-05-29
Stoping people from feeling the cost-pain of Windows Vista is just hurting the alternatives. Ultimate costs 699 US $ in europe (529€). That made the decision for me to switch to Linux for work. Cracking Vista is advertising Microsoft.