Windows uses pirated software?

[iMav]

look all we are trying to say is that mac os x isnt the best os in the world something tht andy and arya have been saying all this while ... other than we got nothing against mac os x. our problem is with guys who will like salesman try to defend their product tooth and nail even though knowing it isnt as good

MS will investigate but tht wasnt the stand u guys took when the news was first posted here and besides ms will investigate doesnt rule out my theory ...

[mediator]

What else do u expect from general masses? Ofcors they'll raise eyebrows when the company which advocates anti-piracy itself is found or 'rumoured' to be using pirated stuff! Ofcors MS says it will investigate. Its a nice strategy to keep the voices down temporarily until they forget the matter. But "all" those people aren't OSC dear. Some are using windows without even knowing anything beyong MS and windows! Its not sensible to say that "only OSC can do that"!
Neways I wont say much about ur fight with Mac guys. Its irrelevant to me. Njoy ur fight with them!

[freshseasons]

Whether how secure corporation go or is paranoid about security, it totally depends on the nature of the work the company does..
Like some corporations actually encourage employees to work from home.This is because they save on traveling. IBM,Oracle actually give incentives for people who work from home like for some time sensitive projects.Initially there were apprehensions that the employees will not work efficiently from home,but the actually results from the performance oriented rat-raced scenario put things to rest.
But for small companies scale for example the setup i have for Medical Transcription and Call Centre ,there actually is HIPPA agreement were we are not supposed to provide employees with Pc access as in,Card ,floppy,CD..or email access.
Roughly having 1500 Credit Card information per day of US citizens , We have to adhere strictly to security almost to the level of being totally paranoid freak.
Pirated software are hence totally out of question.
But yes what if someone used a cracked Winzip to unzip a file.
Guess this cannot be found out or avoided!
These are the trifle truth of work environment!

[amitava82]

IF a company allows and encourages employees to work from home they must provide necessary resources such as computers and softwares to work on it. definitely the company does not expect the employee to buy all the softwares for the company..

[47shailesh]

Originally Posted by freshseasons

Like some corporations actually encourage employees to work from home.This is because they save on traveling. IBM,Oracle actually give incentives for people who work from home like for some time sensitive projects.Initially there were apprehensions that the employees will not work efficiently from home,but the actually results from the performance oriented rat-raced scenario put things to rest.

Ahan things r diff then all Sw and lappy are provided by comp... and i again bring it to ur attention that working from home is not woriking independently ur connected to comp n/w via VLAN..

Yes it's not a big deal to bring work home.. even all the drives(USB/optical).. but what if ur working in DB proj you can't work without DB(don't tell you can bring TB of DB to home )

If you work in Some other SW dev firm than u have to have Custom libraries that you can't bring t home..

[eddie]

The point of this thread is not to bash any company but to show the people the core of a company that is the forerunner against piracy through out the world. They develop (on daily basis) new methods to harass their genuine customers and claim them as their anti-piracy efforts but they can't get their own act straight? Should I listen a lecture on "Why stealing is bad?" from a thief whose bread-and-butter comes from the act?

If Microsoft were earnest in their efforts and these files were accidentally passed into the OS, then the least bit they could have done in last two and a half years was to replace the files with genuine ones by a simple update. Did they do that? No they did not. Why? Because they give a damn. They just want YOU to follow anti-piracy pathway.

[hailgautam]

It may not be correct to blame the whole company because a free lance guy who prepared the music used a cracked software.

Having said that MS should have taken care that none of their products come out with such disturbing things.

[eddie]

^ How did you come to this conclusion that the guy who made these wav files was a freelancer?

[47shailesh]

Originally Posted by hailgautam

It may not be correct to blame the whole company because a free lance guy who prepared the music used a cracked software.

And YES it is total resposiblity of the comp. about the integrity of any product that has it's brand value..

And yes how did u came to know that he is freelancer