Microsoft’s recent release of anti-piracy tools to detect authentic versions of its software have some customers crying foul about the company’s collection of personal information, but the lines are blurry when it comes to customer privacy laws. The Redmond giant was hit with two lawsuits in one week, alleging that the tools violate spyware laws and consumer rights. Microsoft denies the charges, saying they are without merit and that they distort the image of the Windows Genuine Advantage program and Office Genuine Advantage program.
The problem that Microsoft has is that WGA offers no real advantages (except for MS) for the end user corporate sites. That could change very rapidly if Bill Gates or Steve Balmer cared to pick up the phone and listen to a simple technique they could deploy (by agreement not by stealth) that would bring a win-win for all corporate sites and make the end user site management life easier. Our approach would minimise piracy of not only software but also music and movies within the workplace to almost zero! Microsoft has forgotten that they need to make allies of the corporate sector not enemies and their current approach is alienating many! I'd fly in from Adelaide Sth Australia in the next 48 hours to show Gates and Balmer how they can engage the senior CIOs and management at every site running Microsoft Windows OS, if Gates and Balmer and their techno spin doctors were willing to sit and listen for an hour or 2 at the maximum. That's all it would take! Serious genuine replies and airfare offers can be made to [email protected] Somebody needs to force a seachange and we know how they can do it without causing the grief that WGA is bringing!
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No Clear Solution to Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Muddle
Posted by: Alexandra DeFelice July 10, 2006 02:10 PMMicrosoft’s recent release of anti-piracy tools to detect authentic versions of its software have some customers crying foul about the company’s collection of personal information, but the lines are blurry when it comes to customer privacy laws. The Redmond giant was hit with two lawsuits in one week, alleging that the tools violate spyware laws and consumer rights. Microsoft denies the charges, saying they are without merit and that they distort the image of the Windows Genuine Advantage program and Office Genuine Advantage program.
That could change very rapidly if Bill Gates or Steve Balmer cared to pick up the phone and listen to a simple technique they could deploy (by agreement not by stealth) that would bring a win-win for all corporate sites and make the end user site management life easier.
Our approach would minimise piracy of not only software but also music and movies within the workplace to almost zero!
Microsoft has forgotten that they need to make allies of the corporate sector not enemies and their current approach is alienating many!
I'd fly in from Adelaide Sth Australia in the next 48 hours to show Gates and Balmer how they can engage the senior CIOs and management at every site running Microsoft Windows OS, if Gates and Balmer and their techno spin doctors were willing to sit and listen for an hour or 2 at the maximum. That's all it would take!
Serious genuine replies and airfare offers can be made to [email protected] Somebody needs to force a seachange and we know how they can do it without causing the grief that WGA is bringing!