Comments on: Windows XP – Black Edition

By: someotherdude

someotherdude — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:33:41 +0000

Microsoft charges what they charge to cover the overhead of
the SUPPORT included with the license. Microsoft takes on a massive
liability with YOU putting their software on YOUR computer. Say,
for instance, you have a business, and you use computers to keep
track of inventory in several retail locations that you use in your
business. On those computers you use Microsoft software. The
software is supposed to work of particular importance is your
sequel server. It crashes. Not a hardware crash but a software
crash not related to a virus and you can prove it wasn’t
negligence or some other event that caused the failure. Microsoft
then owes you money, and pretty much however much money you say.
Microsoft has to pay people lots of money to make software. It has
to pay lots of money to people to sell software. It has to pay lots
of money to lots of people to legally defend the legality of the
software. Then property holdings, taxes, the power bill,
advertising, taxes, lawsuits, fines, support people, janitors, the
garbage bill, any amenities for employees and I hear there are lots
its an infinite list of things Microsoft must pay. Businesses ALL
businesses are there for one reason. That is to make a profit.
Thats the money you get to keep after you spend all the money you
spend to make the money you make. I personally don’t like
or use Microsoft software whenever possible, but seriously, give
them some credit. Thats a lot of really amazing work they did
especially when you think about all the things they’ve
done. The selling the programming making the right investments at
the right time; these things are all really kind of wonderful when
you look at it in perspective. The prices of everything are only
going to increase because everybody wants more for less. They want
to do less and get more, so you’re going to pay more. The
next time you’re buying something you always buy and the
price is greater than it was last time you paid for it you are
paying for someone to be lazy. Piracy is making money on the work
put into a product. by somebody else. A bootlegger did not invest
the time or resources required to create a product. Said bootlegger
only invested time and resources into what is required to make
copies. To turn around and sell those copies is piracy which is
stealing on a whole new level. Literally its probably how Microsoft
got to where they are today. I’m pretty sure
there’s an old guy at Xerox that can tell you a great
story about just that. Filesharing. Filesharing is not piracy.
Filesharing is filesharing. Filesharing companies make money by
advertising products and services on their filesharing websites.
Filesharing websites provide a service to filesharing users by
providing tools and information used to share files. They can not
and will not control what files are being shared because it would
violate the privacy of those sharing the files. There is no way to
tell who got how much of what file from who. There is no way to
prove who gave which file to who specifically. If person a
didn’t get all of one file from person b then person a got
it from more than one person even though all people ended up with
the same file. A group of people generated a copy. NO one person is
to blame. Some files are copyrighted some are not and some are even
copyleft. It is what it is, and all that can be done is the
companies who submitted their own files on the filesharing network
to see who is getting what and contributing to the distribution of
their copyrighted work will then warn the Internet service provider
to warn their client of civil responsibility of contributing to the
distribution of a copyrighted work and that civil action will be
taken if it continues. In which case the company that submitted
their own copyrighted work to the filesharing network sort of
committed privacy violations but also distributed their own work.
Have at er. Its all yours now. Im done.

By: Xeno

Xeno — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:33:17 +0000

That was DAMN GENIUS man!!!!!

By: wazzee

wazzee — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:55:04 +0000

where do i find the keybord language setup?

By: Fossil

Fossil — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:17:24 +0000

@Black Edition Thanks for XP Black-- it's awesome. Just curious, though, Will there ever be a Black Edition 64-Bit? I'd like to be able to use my 8GB RAM.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:29:53 +0000

There is no need to pirate software when the open source community is creating so much good content as well as re-creating a lot of the most popular paid software available.
Bargain hunting gets you a long way if you need windows. My current Compaq PC cost under AU$800 and is an average mid level PC with monitor and Vista Home Premium. Now 12 months after that purchase I still can’t replace the machine for under AU$1,000.
On the other hand I could have built the same machine for roughly the same price but for hardware only and used Ubuntu or one of the other *nix Operating Systems. The problem with doing that is my X-Box 360 wouldn’t be able to stream live TV from it, nor would I be able to play the latest games on it but otherwise I would be able to do everything I need to.
The security on Vista is easier to use and understand for the average beginner than it is with XP or *nix.
Cost for Vista here is
AU$145 Home Premium OEM
AU$250 Ultimate OEM

By: a420pyro

a420pyro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:55:23 +0000

And sometimes they’re added to the virus/spyware database and will be detected as malware.

By: a420pyro

a420pyro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:46:28 +0000

Did you know that most of the time KeyGen’s give off virus warnings… if you’re scared.. Try running the keygen on a old computer or on a VM…

By: BC

BC — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:21:12 +0000

BC if that is your situation then you do what you have to do to survive.

By: BC

BC — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:09:36 +0000

I am a Senior Graphic Designer working in the Philippines. I use software like 3DS Max & Vray, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Office, watch Video Tutorials of particular programs, etc… on a Windows XP OS… all pirated copies (downloaded). Just how on earth will a Senior Designer living on a less-than-600-dollars-a-month salary be able to buy authentic software like the ones mentioned above and, at the same time, support his/her family? And a lot more working professionals here in our country earn half my salary, just imagine that. We will have to starve to death for weeks or even months just to buy licensed software. And, sadly, that’s the truth. Sorry to all programmers/software developers out there. I may have to stick to downloading “free” software for a very longtime.

By: Prof jack

Prof jack — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:11:40 +0000

I installed Black XP and did not find the 3 trojan horses on the dvd. I used Kaspersky, Nod32, McAfee 2008 and Microsoft Anti-Spyware which are all up to date. This fuss has nothing to do with a choise an individual can make abot the use of software and where to obtain it.

Guys, if you can afford Vista Ultimate and all Bill’s software, then buy it. But as for trying to kill Black XP developer, then the world will never run out of monopoly and its supporters.

Keep it up Black XP! I support you all the way. And thank you Bill Gates for your Ideas we improve in a much better way. Maybe you wont charge us for what we already know in the future.

And… whos piracy are you all talking abot?