Thursday, August 10, 2006
more Windows “Genuine” “Advantage”
Another article on WGA: Microsoft to Tighten the Genuine Advantage Screws .
This paragraph in particular caught my attention:
One element of Microsoft’s OEM-focused Genuine Advantage strategy could be increasing the number of copies of Microsoft Office that are preloaded on new PCs. Under an internal Microsoft program known as the Unlicensed PC Initiative, the company is working to reduce piracy by curbing the number of new PCs sold without Windows – and, increasingly, Office—preloaded on them.
In addition to some other comments that come to my mind, I can’t help wondering of the profits from an increasing number of preloaded copies doesn’t already make up for the alleged losses due to piracy…