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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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Re: Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-27
Philip Kerrigan
Really? So you never get spam mail, you never get probed for vulnerabilities?

I think you have missed the point of the article that says "affects us all". The author is not concerned about the user of the pirated copy but about what that user's computer will then do to everybody else's when infec...

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