Today I reinstalled Windows

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just realized a way that Microsoft could go a long way towards
> soothing-over the Vista fiasco, while generating goodwill among
> Windows users, undermining Linux adoption, making lots of very good
> press and really not costing Microsoft very much money (seriously, I
> can’t imagine much more than those terrible ads with Gates and
> Seinfeld).
>
> But I am *so* confident that it would completely run contrary to the
> ‘penny-wise but dollar-foolish’ mentality at M$ that they will *never*
> do it that I will blog the idea right here:
>
> Let legitimate Windows Vista keys work for Windows Seven.
>
> IOW, let Windows Vista users upgrade to Windows Seven for free (gratis).
>

No, the only thing they'd need to do is get rid of Windows Activation
and Windows Genuine Advantage.  Something they'd NEVER do in a million
years because their corporate leadership never got the memo that DRM
as a technology is a humiliating failure.

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