Articles by George Lunt

Microsoft is due to release its new Vista operating system, either late this year or early next year. Does the new operating system as successful as other offerings from Microsoft?

Microsoft’s own greed could to end the reign of the Windows operating system desktop foreground. Combat piracy, Microsoft has its activation with Windows XP. Activation should be to ensure that a copy of XP can be used on a PC. Hackers created easily avoided versions of Windows, the activation process. Then in the fall of 2004, Microsoft “Windows Genuine Advantage”. This program was created to Microsoft for each computer to check if it is running a genuine XP or a pirated version of XP. In the beginning it was voluntary. Then, last summer, Microsoft has made it mandatory to download free software from Microsoft. Now it has even become necessary security patches for Windows XP. If your PC the test has failed and you have a counterfeit installation CD, the real (including the holographic emblem similar to the actual copies of Windows) appears, Microsoft will send you a real hard disk free in exchange of fake hard drive. Otherwise, make your Windows genuine, you either have a genuine version of Windows XP or enjoy all that interested in Microsoft, offers to you.

With the advent of the “Windows Genuine Advantage” campaign, Microsoft is the personification of a typical greedy “Alien company”. As Linux distributions have better and better, be careful how it treats its users with Microsoft. They seem to think that their software so much that people pay, rather than to go.

Microsoft licensing always stipulated that to be legal, you had a license for Windows or DOS operating system to buy for all PCs that you own. But since the early DOS days until Windows 2000, someone buys a given operating system and all around family, friends and neighbors. While Windows 98 Second Edition is rolled out of ten or more PCs.

Linux, on the other hand, allows you to legally install it on every computer you own. So, put Linux on ten or more computers is not only legal but desirable as a form of advertising for the operating system. But Windows users have the same thing in all these years. They were advertising windows by allowing it to. It was not legal nor tolerated by Microsoft, but Windows piracy was to promote a form of advertising that is Windows and helped its growth. As you can see, all this has not stopped rampant piracy, Gates, Microsoft Chairman Bill became one of the richest men in the world.

There is one other thing to consider when you think about the piracy of the operating system. If you are a company with thousands of computers, you will receive a special offer on Windows licensing. If you’re a PC maker Hewlett-Packard are so large, you will receive a discount on OEM versions of Windows. But if you have a small computer business and build five clone PCs per month, the price you would for normal users only pay for genuine Windows. (For XP, it is one hundred dollars for the Home Edition, one hundred and fifty dollars for the Professional Edition.) It’s time to start a small person and to compete with the big boys difficult and piracy system operation can be a way to the playground piracy Upgrade be, as to be considered really a “discount for the working class.”

There are several Linux distributions, which are just as good or better than Microsoft has nothing to offer. But people are still clinging to Windows because they did not really want to learn something new and moving to Linux would require a small learning curve. Microsoft probably already have agreements with PC manufacturers to install Vista on his PC, virtually every major brand in the U.S. when it comes out. To be fair to all, everyone should come without a PC operating system, if someone orders them to order the PC operating system and the store and install it if the people had the choice of it: .. “Linux Fedora Core 4: Free” or “Windows Vista Professional. $ 200.00″ I wonder if they would still choose Windows?

Microsoft could actually make the Windows operating system for the next hundred years. All you have to do is free to Vista when it comes out. As Linux would not support the free version or guarantee. They did not even make it open source (reveal their internal code), it release. You could still make money by creating a highly secure, highly twisted version fully supports Vista, and companies to large corporations who can afford to sell. That’s what companies like Red Hat and Novell do. When Vista was released, the pirates would stop making money, Microsoft would need millions by eliminating the “Orwellian” surveillance to determine if Windows is authentic rescue, and Linux is no longer a major threat. Unfortunately, foreign companies do not tend to look on the dollar sign.

Microsoft will probably hold the “Windows Genuine Advantage” program and trying to thwart all attempts by the hacker. Although hackers to circumvent the situation, any code that comes with Microsoft, they will eventually play angry with the huge corporate network Alien. And pirated copies of Vista will be hard to get. This advertising will end up benefiting from rampant piracy that Microsoft enjoyed in recent years. Windows Vista will start losing market shares and in 10 years, a major Linux distribution is the desktop operating system to be in the foreground. If Linux triumphs, Microsoft Office, will be replaced by Open Office, and Microsoft’s stranglehold on PC software is finally broken.

If you would like Microsoft and keep them in power, to encourage them to freely express their Vista operating system. At the very least suggest that they drop the annoying “Windows Genuine Advantage” program.

If you want to accelerate the downfall of Microsoft. Not a pirate, a pirate or buy Windows, especially its new incarnation, Vista. Learn to work with your favorite Linux distribution. You can use the free Linux distributions. Even with broadband this may take some time. You can buy all Linux distributions, for cost reasons, it practically to osdisc.com.When records you buy your next computer make you a real Linux operating system is loaded, it takes. Linux is the incumbent, almost everyone is creating more and better software for it. In no time you get the “Linux Genuine Advantage”.