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Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All
Oliver Day, 2008-11-14

For the last few years, Microsoft has wrestled with their stance on piracy. Pirated operating systems are just like legitimate operating systems in terms of their exposure to vulnerabilities: Users must install patches or they will be compromised.

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Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-15
Anonymous (1 replies)
Quote: "Whether Microsoft likes it or not, they are responsible for all the machines which use their operating system."

Microsoft is responsible for systems that have illegal, possibly trojan laden copies of it's OS? Are you serious? Name another company which is responsible for supporting stolen products that have potentially been modified in unknown ways.

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