Today, Microsoft issued a statement giving an account of a lawsuit against Comet, an electronics distributor in the UK.
The company claims that the Comet had sold more than 94,000 illegal copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista in the form of system restore disks. On the one hand, the distributor's own fault for having Microsoft stopped providing original discs from the sale of new personal computers in 2007.
According to Comet, if a disk was lost for example, the only way the client was or restore your machine to send the computer back to the store or buy a new Windows license, which is not always meant to have the machine exactly as was before the crash.
On the other hand, Microsoft says it expects "much more of its distributors and their customers deserve more than that - it's not fair."
What seems to be ignored by the Comet (and something that inevitably cost them their heads in the courts) is the fact that the computer is sold at the store contains an original license the operating system, a simple download from the manufacturer's website solves part of the customer problem.
Yes, in the case of Windows XP / 7, if applicable to format the machine to resolve. The user can then burn as many copies of personal desires, since they only use the license of your property. Format, reinstall, viola. Now, to restore it through a download before a possible crash, there's the other ... and this is indeed a problem.
image: front of a Comet's stores in the UK (Internet)
Although it is somewhat difficult to identify as the Comet said it "vigorously defend its position" in the courts.
On the problem of restoration of personal computers, the controversy still persists. Although Microsoft has aborted the CD / DVD directly with the original sale of computers, the possession of his original license, you have to format your machine and then restore a previously saved point.
That is, the argument of the Comet (maybe the only) is that the user can not simply restore your machine through a download, directly from the manufacturer's website, such as Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) for example. He will always need an installation disk to redo the whole process, which according to them (Comet) should be "forced" their hand to meet their customers well, absurd and desperately trying to blame on Microsoft.
Apple has never stopped sending original discs resettlement / restore with each unit sold to 0 OS X 10.6 (Snow Loepard) Microsoft practice that aborted in mid-2007 given by the immense and uncontrollable amount of units shipped with your operating system around the world, which only amplified the scope of the piracy.
Microsoft maintains an entire website specifically targeted to support its user to identify pirated software and systems, to clarify issues related to licensing and reporting the distribution of illegal copies. The website is HowToTell.Com, although unfortunately the truth is that many users do not care much about its content.
From July 2011, the new MacBook Airs on, then Apple would offer Lion pre-installed on the machine and upgrades, updates and restorations completely downloadable.
What really surprises is the fact that Comet completely ignore the terms of use and licensing at Microsoft do not get stuck towards the sale of units.
More surprisingly is on the verge of doing this have on hand Windows 8, which among its many updates, are the functions of Refresh, Reset and Cloud Backup and new countermeasures against piracy.
The company claims that the Comet had sold more than 94,000 illegal copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista in the form of system restore disks. On the one hand, the distributor's own fault for having Microsoft stopped providing original discs from the sale of new personal computers in 2007.
According to Comet, if a disk was lost for example, the only way the client was or restore your machine to send the computer back to the store or buy a new Windows license, which is not always meant to have the machine exactly as was before the crash.
On the other hand, Microsoft says it expects "much more of its distributors and their customers deserve more than that - it's not fair."
What seems to be ignored by the Comet (and something that inevitably cost them their heads in the courts) is the fact that the computer is sold at the store contains an original license the operating system, a simple download from the manufacturer's website solves part of the customer problem.
Yes, in the case of Windows XP / 7, if applicable to format the machine to resolve. The user can then burn as many copies of personal desires, since they only use the license of your property. Format, reinstall, viola. Now, to restore it through a download before a possible crash, there's the other ... and this is indeed a problem.
image: front of a Comet's stores in the UK (Internet)
Although it is somewhat difficult to identify as the Comet said it "vigorously defend its position" in the courts.
On the problem of restoration of personal computers, the controversy still persists. Although Microsoft has aborted the CD / DVD directly with the original sale of computers, the possession of his original license, you have to format your machine and then restore a previously saved point.
That is, the argument of the Comet (maybe the only) is that the user can not simply restore your machine through a download, directly from the manufacturer's website, such as Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) for example. He will always need an installation disk to redo the whole process, which according to them (Comet) should be "forced" their hand to meet their customers well, absurd and desperately trying to blame on Microsoft.
Apple has never stopped sending original discs resettlement / restore with each unit sold to 0 OS X 10.6 (Snow Loepard) Microsoft practice that aborted in mid-2007 given by the immense and uncontrollable amount of units shipped with your operating system around the world, which only amplified the scope of the piracy.
Microsoft maintains an entire website specifically targeted to support its user to identify pirated software and systems, to clarify issues related to licensing and reporting the distribution of illegal copies. The website is HowToTell.Com, although unfortunately the truth is that many users do not care much about its content.
From July 2011, the new MacBook Airs on, then Apple would offer Lion pre-installed on the machine and upgrades, updates and restorations completely downloadable.
What really surprises is the fact that Comet completely ignore the terms of use and licensing at Microsoft do not get stuck towards the sale of units.
More surprisingly is on the verge of doing this have on hand Windows 8, which among its many updates, are the functions of Refresh, Reset and Cloud Backup and new countermeasures against piracy.
