Thread: Which operating system do you use?

Correct, but i was able to get a copy of it on a few disks. A friend from college and a free license key from Microsoft's Accadamic Licensing. I.E, My college.

Originally Posted by monaghan

Ah, but you can't use the academic license as you are in business, picks up the phone to Microsoft fraud dept

*Waits until they call me....

Fraud Dep: Hello , is this Mr Swan
Me: Yes, that is correct
Fraud Dep: Ok, we have had a report that you are using a student license key on business computers
Me; No, i have it running on my personal laptop, which is at home. and I also passed on a copy of the software to a friend at college who has his own license key through the programme.
Fraud Dep: Ok Mr Swan, Thank you for the information, we shall be checking with your Providing, By the way, what is your providers addresss?
ME; Tells them providers adrress and says goodbye.


LOL

Originally Posted by monaghan

Blimey, some people can't see the smiley

On a side note, there are lots of people using the student and home edition to manage their business, so I'm surprised that MS have not built something in to track usage and feed this usage back, they must be loosing millions each year in revenue. I recall an outcry when AVG put something into their free edition of 7.5 to detect a domain setup and display a fradulent use message despite the fact that the free edition had excluded such use from at least version 6.

Yeah, i saw the smiley and thats why i added smileys to mine aswel, just thought i would add a little *phone* confo to the thread...

I am not taking it seriously, LOL.



~ Mike

PS> i am also suprised, MS have alot of money and... Oh well. I just remember i don't care about MS. I like LINUX.!

I have to use windows at the moment, since my Mobile Modem for my internet is not yet Linux supported. Windows drivers are provided and no one has the Linux ones.

Have you seen or heard about the Online Operating Systems?

EyeOS is a good one of these, my mate and i had one setup and it is Linux based.

Originally Posted by monaghan

You may not like MS, but you still need to respect their license conditions

Making money is not a crime, violating license agreements is.

Oh yeah, much aggreed, LOL. Good thing i am keeping myself legal and using it for personal use only. LOL

MS, would be nicer if only they allowed Open Source Programmers to have access to some of the codes but they have been trying to claim that their work is Open Source, when in fact. It is as closed and secret as a Government File.