IE 7 for Pirated Windows Users

Posted by Leo on October 19th, 2007 at 11:14am

The MS IE blog has recently presented the move of dropping the WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) validation step from the installer of IE7.

That means anybody using pirated copies of Windows would be able to use the newest IE7, without being identified ‘you are using a pirated copy of Windows’.

I honestly do not agree on this. First of all, I don’t think using any pirated software is a good idea. You may think that software is expensive, but if you found it expensive, just use something free. There are certainly software that are compatible for what you are using now. Eg. Windows - Linux, Office - OpenOffice etc, Norton - AVG etc.

Why are you willing to buy hardware at a high price, but not willing to pay for software? Just because software is intangible? Just because it has less packing? Do you know how much intelligence has been put onto developing something that actually simplifies your work?

Be fair to the developers.

MS has been kicking pirated software on one side, and some how letting pirated software user to enjoy the same benefit that are offered to legitimate users. I just can’t agree.

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