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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 2008-11-17
NickMax (1 replies)
While I would like everyone to be patched, I think Microsoft has the right to treat real customers different from non-customers. Imagine you have a store and have to put technicians to repair items bought in "another" store...

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