Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All

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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I would disagree that they have substantial additional costs in terms of bandwidth since they are already delivering patches via auto update. Also as another commenter has noted they can download via the main website as well.

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