Originally Posted by
murphy
I'm with you. Why continue to do business with a company that treats you like a criminal? Windows product activation isn't particularly effective in preventing piracy. It does a great job at getting in the way of legitimate users though.
It won't stop the diehard pirates and the vast majority of Asian store-in-a-shack resellers, but it will stop the casual copiers, the kind of mom and pop pirates that pick up a copy from the guy at the office who always has a stack of CD-R's in his drawer.
The days where you could install anything from Microsoft with a simple 111-11111 key are long gone, and every pirate they stop is at least one more.
It is amazing how people view software piracy when it's the big bad Microsoft that is being screwed over.
Instead of complaining about how bad Windows is, you should be calling your software vendor demanding a version for the Mac.