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Thread ID: 16667	2002-03-14 09:25:00	Microsoft Bashing	Guest (0)	Press F1

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39162	2002-03-14 09:25:00	Evening All I actually think that Microsoft produce some pretty good software - especially the likes of Word and Excel, which are both excellent products. And I certainly have no problem with anyone being successful and making heaps of money. But ... Does it bother anyone else that a lot of companies are now using small bits of their own precious and expensive advertising space to tell me 'howtotell' if my Microsoft software is genuine? Is this sycophancy or slavery? Are they paid to do it, or strong-armed into doing it, or have they all just developed a crusading desire to stamp out software piracy? Another related question: If advertising works at all, then we can reasonably expect that MS will get a result from this saturation advertising campaign (and related activities such as prosecutions of companies, etc). So how much will the retail prices of their products drop by next year? Any guesses?	Guest (0)
39163	2002-03-14 09:56:00	Yes Microsoft to produce some fine software. Sure most of their software has bugs, but then again so does preddy much any software. One of the reasons why there software seems so bad is because of the amount of people using there software, same reason R22 helicopters seem to be the most unsafe helicopter (it's the most popular so ofcourse more of them crash). Yes it is bad the way that companies devote some of there advertising space to Microsoft anti-piracy adverts. I think it is probably something to do with being a Microsoft reseller, it will be written into the contract somewhere. Funny thing is that I don't think I've that web address to work yet about the Microsoft how to tell. JM	Guest (0)
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