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1. Comment - Keygen Beats Windows Product Activation

   (Feb 19, 2002 - 4:16 AM)

   Speaking from my professional persona as an IT guy for a medium-sized business (approx. 250 users) I do have mixed feelings about WPA. Since I develop some business apps for Windows on the side, I can fully understand Microsoft's desire to protect their intellectual property... and yet at the same time I also know first hand the annoyances that go along with product activation. Activation is quite a hassle, and there is no real cost-effective reasons for getting a corp license to update from NT4 and 2000 since everything we run works perfectly well under those previous versions.
   
   From a personal standpoint, I don't like XP as well and I have yet to see XP show any clearcut advantages over Win2k. I won't compare the merits of Windows vs. any other operating system because nearly all of the arguments are irrelevant or inconsequential to me. Windows will continue to be our operating system until somebody develops better software for what we do on another OS.
   
   Don't get me wrong, there is no great love for MS on my part. Licensing is a headache, BSODs are a fact of life, and for home use I *will* run the same OS and software on as many machines as I feel like (with only one license). I explained this to our local MS rep who replied "as long as you aren't selling it, we don't give a rat's [posterior-end] what you do with the stuff at home."