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With mere weeks before the official release of microsoft's new windows server 2003 platform, a code has been leaked allowing unlimited installations of the operating system. The leak is thought to have come from a corporate customer subscribed to the microsoft volume-licensing program. This is a major blow to microsoft, as it allows for major piracy of what is one of the company's flagship products. Websites have also issued reports that the code is a 3-in-1 code, which means that it can be used with any of the three versions of windows server 2003 that will be available.microsoft is not new to having to deal with leaked codes. With office and windows xp ms tried a new approach, requiring an activation process that meant contacting microsoft to get the os “activated” as well as the standard installation code. The problem is that microsoft relaxed the activation phase for volume licensing to ease the installation pain for large businesses. In the case of server 2003, microsoft has produced codes for volume licensing that can be used for both stages.
Matthew's opinionthis should be no surprise to anyone, really. As soon as there is a release of a new piece of software (especially as high-profile as this) codes and cracks appear on the web and spread like wild fire. Microsoft's pledge to track down the code is meaningless, as it will have already spread to thousands of users and will continue to do so, finding its way onto cds containing the cracked software.in a way this could help microsoft, as people who wouldn't usually be able to afford the server edition may now be able to even–if they are breaking the law. This does, however, have those people using the microsoft software, and the more use it gets the more people will stick with the windows platform (or that's the theory at least). Microsoft will still make its money from businesses, as the ramifications to them using illegal software are large and involve large fines and sometimes prison sentences.i do find it strange that a code that can allow unlimited installs should be leaked before the release of the software.
Surely microsoft can issue one code per business and track whom it actually belongs to. Any code that was then leaked would be instantly traceable to a business, and may even deter a business from leaking it in the first place. (just kiddin', please ignore this and similar posts in this thread)but i was first. – by disckilleri can see why.
(10:26am est wed apr 09 2003)microsoft has been trying to tie users to them like a baby and its umbilical cord. If we never leave the womb, no naughty naughty lol. Ahh alas, yet its the same hunger to stop piracy that is killing microsoft appeal. – by eric the red.here it comes (10:32am est wed apr 09 2003).i'd give this about an 8 on the ol' flame-o-meter – by hmmmmmpiracy cannot be stopped (10:51am est wed apr 09 2003)i was trying to crack a windows xp disc(legal not copied) but it's not working. My friend bought it, but it's only good for one installation, then you have to call ms. They did a pretty good job with xp. Anyway, i will get around it somehow.
It's a matter of time. (11:03am est wed apr 09 2003)this should at least be an honorable mention atno piracy is stopped as keys are leaked before it even ships, but honest customers who overpaid for the crap are terribly inconvienienced. Real smart on ms's part. Really makes you believe in trustworthy computing, eh? – by /smwait for an announced software audit from bsa (11:07am est wed apr 09 2003)with all those disgruntal mcse phoning up the bsa on their former employers, no wonder there is few upgrades to the latest windows products. Many employers have unannounced software audits and can't produce the software license within time and have to pay a fine.
“it's the first observation of fusion for a pulsed power source,” said dr. Leeper, manager of the target physics department at sandia, in albuquerque, who presented the findings at a meeting of the american physical society here.more at the nyt (reg req)enjoy, fellow geeks! – by /smwait for an unannounced software audit from bsa (11:31am est wed apr 09 2003)ernie ball inc.
Turned to linux out of crisis more than cost savings. Three years ago, the global manufacturer of guitar strings was slammed by the business software alliance for running more copies of windows than the company had paid for. Then there were the pirated copies of software from autodesk inc. And filemaker inc. It was the spark that turned ernie ball into a linux hot spot. “we had 120 days to comply with the bsa, and we complied by throwing everything out,” says jeff whitmore, an it manager at ernie ball.
The company operates almost all of its business on open-source software, including red hat linux on its desktops and servers, staroffice on pcs, and e-mail from ximian. Whitmore says the company spent about $20,000 to make the switch and cut $80,000 to $100,000 a year from its it budget. With a little more than 70 users, the it staff handled training on the fly. “there wasn't a lot of training involved, and we just handled questions from users as they popped up,” he says.surprise this story came in two days ago– bywait-a-sec (11:37am est wed apr 09 2003)“the company will also take the step of stopping any updates through the window update system for any versions of the software registered with that code.”i thought the windows update system wasn't supposed to “collect any personally identifiable information”.
I mean, not that i.believed. them but they could at least be more subtlesilly ms – by:-)given time anything will be cracked (11:45am est wed apr 09 2003)“surely microsoft can issue one code per business and track whom it actually belongs to. Any code that was then leaked would be instantly traceable to a business, and may even deter a business from leaking it in the first place”but that would be tooooo easy to do.m$ has to do things the hard way and model their security after 'open front door theme' – by werd streborone problem with unique keys (12:00pm est wed apr 09 2003)the problem with providing everyone with a unique key would be the amount of unique keys. They would all have to be coded within the os, meaning millions of unique keys, remembering these keys negate any contact with ms.
Then it is only a matter of time, my guess weeks at most, before someone stumbles upon a code that works and it gets circulated. Then you have the same situation as you have now. – by businessgeekwerd strebor (12:04pm est wed apr 09 2003)“m$ has to do things the hard way and model their security after 'open front door theme'”no, the front door is only two feet wide and 3 feet tall, locked with a hundred deadbolts so it's damned hard to interface with non-ms computers over a normal ip network. You just can't do it without samba.it's their windows that are wide open, giant picture windows made of cellophane. It's easier to hack into a ms box than it is to interface honestly with anotheros or app. – by /smwin2003 (12:04pm est wed apr 09 2003)windows 2003: it is not open source but looks like it is freeware.
– by raxeven the bsa can threat the government. (12:10pm est wed apr 09 2003)remember when virginia beach, va was sued by the bsa.in september, the city received a letter from microsoft via the bsa demanding that it produce an inventory and proof of purchase for every microsoft product on every computer the city owned. Virginia beach was given 30 days to comply. I've been told unofficially that the letter did not even specifically address the city — it was a form letter.form letter or no, virginia beach took it very seriously. It soon realized its chance of completing the task in the allotted 30 days was roughly on par with that of a democratic county in florida having sufficient time to do a manual recount. The city requested a 30-day extension, then dedicated five people — one-fourth of its it department — to the task, which was finally completed in late november at a cost of over $80,000.
The city had searched its roughly 3,900 computers and identified more than 800 microsoft products for which proof of purchase could not be found. That heinous crime was likely neither intentional nor unintentional piracy, but rather a policy failure by various city departments, which threw out the proofs of purchase instead of safeguarding them. Nonetheless, the penalty was substantial.it cost the city about $129,000 to acquire the missing licenses, meaning the little exercise cost a total of over $200,000. That money could have gone to the beach health clinic, the purchase of library books, or any number of uses that would have benefited the city more than the privilege of paying twice for the same software.microsoft unleashes piracy police: are you safe? That is why bsa is opposing open-source. If oregon goes open source, bsa can't bother oregon with a software audit. (12:23pm est wed apr 09 2003)now i have to install a 1000 copies.
M$ should leave the code out there, because it's the only way any copies of this is going to get installed.mmm good crackers.– by nabiscorax (12:36pm est wed apr 09 2003)“what do you hate more? The msn butterfly or the windows paperclip?”are you kidding? I love the butterfly! It's the only example ever of microsoft being honest in their branding or advertising. A big fat bug- perfect symbol for microsoft. – by /smclever marketing (12:41pm est wed apr 09 2003)is often mistaken for something else completely, infact that's what makes it clever.i'm a believer that in most high profile cases like this where installed market share is the target then they're engineered rather than one naughty boy stealing it.bill knows that the one quick way to get things out and on the untapped market (the cheap end of the wedge) is, like a dealer offer the first rock of crack for free. Once you sort out a server and run a ton of shit on it the last thing you're gonna do a year down the line is ditch it and start again.
Backdoor, gurilla marketing.and they'll make such a fuss over it but really, who're they kidding?– by spacca“go with the butterfly” (12:49pm est wed apr 09 2003)yes, i do. Star office's logo is also the butterfly. I go with the butterfly with star office or with its free cousin open office. – byfear ms (12:51pm est wed apr 09 2003)microsoft has the power and money to bomb the shit out of whoever stole their keycode. Don't mess with microsoft.
There will be a regime change with those pirates. – by bush gatesso, where can i get the keys?? (12:55pm est wed apr 09 2003) – by national enquirerhow dumb could they be (1:01pm est wed apr 09 2003)i can understand actively blocking win/office xp pirates, but blocking server users is suicidal.
Ms is #1 in the server industry because it is easy to use and to learn. By denying people access to software they can learn on, there'll be a lot less w2k3 server experts going around and making sure w2k3 installations run smoothly. Face it, if a company can afford a license, they'll buy oneespecially with the new cheaper webserver version. No one who would otherwise buy a copy would run a pirated copy.
They'd risk losing their job. It's not their money they're spending, it's their company's money. People pirate server software because they want to study for a promotion or are curious, not because they're actually using it for its intent and design. I guess i'll be running w2k for a very long time. – by stevento /sm (1:02pm est wed apr 09 2003)haha!
I know where that butterfly can stuff that paperclip!also cool report about fusion. I only wish “geek” websites would report about “geek” stuff like that more often. Instead of p.d.a.(please dude! Another?) crap! – by acemansteven: very few people are running windows 2003 (1:09pm est wed apr 09 2003)of those companies that say they would not roll out windows server 2003, more than 40% say they could find no compelling business justification, while 13% say they can't afford to migrate under microsoft's new licensing 6.0 program. Also, 12% say they lack the budget, and 9% say they're moving to linux as their server operating system. An overriding concern of moving to windows server 2003, didio says, has nothing to do with the technology itself, which she notes promises significant increases in reliability over windows server 2000 and nt, microsoft's current server operating systems.
Instead, it's the sheer complexity of any server migration. Today's enterprise infrastructure is a complicated dance of not just servers, but legacy and custom applications, driver issues, hardware and bandwidth limitations, web-services interplay, and security.survey says windows server 2003 adoption will be slow– byit language. (1:11pm est wed apr 09 2003)key code leaked? What a difficult is theit language – by john bored feedbacksteven: windows easier to learn and use? Listen to ms. (1:18pm est wed apr 09 2003)“ms is #1 in the server industry because it is easy to use and to learn.”i rather listen to microsoft on their secret documents stating the advantages of.nix over windows. 1) familiarity.
Entrepreneurs in the startup world are generally familiar with one version of unix (usually through college education), and training in one easily converts to another. When setting up a new enterprise, it’s easy to work with what you know than to take time investigating the alternatives.4) easy to minimize. The typical unix server is taking care of one task, not acting as a desktop and development platform for a user. It is particularly easy to cut down the load on the system so that only the minimum number of services is running.
This reduced complexity aids stability and transparency.5) transparent. It’s easy to look at a unix system and know what is running and why. Although its configuration files may have arcane (and sometimes too-simple) syntax, they are easy to find and change. 6) preference for text files. Most configuration setups, log files, and so on, are plain text files with reasonably short line lengths. Although this may be marginally detrimental to performance (usually in circumstances where it doesn’t matter) it is a powerful approach because a small, familiar set of tools, adapted to working with short text lines, can be used by the administrators for most of their daily tasks.
In particular, favorite tools can be used to analyze all the system’s log files and error reports.7) powerful but simple scripting languages and tools. Again, familiarity and consistency among unix implementations is the key. Over the years, unix versions have evolved a good set of single-function commands and shell scripting languages that work well for ad-hoc and automated administration. The shell scripting languages fall just short of being a programming language (they have less power than vbscript or jscript).
This may seem to be a disadvantage, but we must remember that operators are not programmers having to learn a block-structured programming language is a resistance point. Scripts that combine executables into pipelines are simple to build incrementally and experimentally, and even the experienced hotmail administrators seem to be taking that approach for special purpose scripts (using cmd) rather than authoring with one of the object-oriented scripts.on the other hand, perl (another language that has grown organically with a lot of community feedback) is more of a programming than scripting language. It is popular for repeated, automated tasks that can be developed and optimized by senior administrative staff who do have the higher level of programming expertise required. – by open source gloatingkey code leaked. (1:19pm est wed apr 09 2003)maybe it was not leaked accidentally and was actually leaked.”accidentally”. As in lets see how fast it propogates and how and where and by whom? But i have seen stranger things from even more conservative and secretive organizations.
– by paranoidsteven: windows easier to learn and use? Listen to ms. (1:19pm est wed apr 09 2003)how hard is it to use windows as a server?consider the above list of unix strengths to be also a list of windows weaknesses. However, there are some specific issues that need to be called out.1) a gui bias. Windows 2000 server products continue to be designed with the desktop in mind. There are too many functions that are either too difficult or impossible to perform using a text-based interface. N there is in place at hotmail an established secure channel into the production system, using a text-based secure shell interface.n using a gui amounts to hiding the true system modifications from the system administrators and operators.
Unix operators like the sense of control that comes from their ability to modify system tables and configuration files more directly.n operating a gui through a slow network connection can be too slow to be useful. Although this is less important, it can still be a consideration when there is a need to administer or diagnose a system through a dialup connection. There are, indeed, many non-gui administrative programs provided in the core windows 2000 product and in the resource kit.
The problem is that the collection is somewhat arbitrary, incoherent and inconsistent. Programs seem to have been written to fill an immediate need and there is stylistic inconsistency and poor feature coverage.2) complexity.
A windows server out of the box is an elaborate system. Although it performs specific tasks well (such as being a web server) there are many services that have a complex set of dependencies, and it is never clear which ones are necessary and which can be removed to improve the system’s efficiency.3) obscurity. Some parameters that control the system’s operation are hidden and difficult to fully assess. The metabase is an obvious example. The problem here is that is makes the administrator nervous in a single-function system he wants to be able to understand all of the configuration-related choices that the system is making on his behalf.
4) resource utilization. It’s true that windows requires a more powerful computer than linux or freebsd. In practice, this is a less important constraint. When you are building a large operation, you will use smaller numbers of relatively powerful systems. The pc systems in use at hotmail are perfectly capable of running windows, and the machine’s basic power is the same whether it is run with unix or windows.
For most of the time, it is only executing application code and most of the extra elaboration is not apparent.5) image size. The team was unable to reduce the size of the image below 900mb windows contains many complex relationships between pieces, and the team was not able to determine with safety how much could be left out of the image. Although disk space on each server was not an issue, the time taken to image thousands of servers across the internal network was significant. By comparison, the equivalent freebsd image size is a few tens of mb.6) reboot as an expectation. Windows operations still involves too many reboots. Sometimes they are unnecessary, but operators reboot a system rather than take the time to debug it. For example, a service may be hung, and rather than take the time to find and fix the problem, it is often more convenient to reboot.
By contrast, unix administrators are conditioned to quickly identify the failing service and simply restart it they are helped in this by the greater transparency of unix and the small number of interdependencies. Some reboots are demanded by an application installation, and are not strictly necessary. N no business analysis was undertaken to determine whether the benefit of the conversion would outweigh the not – by open source gloatingkey code leaked. (1:19pm est wed apr 09 2003)maybe it was not leaked accidentally and was actually leaked.”accidentally”. As in lets see how fast it propogates and how and where and by whom?
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But i have seen stranger things from even more conservative and secretive organizations. – by paranoidhi microsoft (1:54pm est wed apr 09 2003)microsoft is lame. – by farsteven (3:34pm est wed apr 09 2003)good old pro-microsoft, anti anything else fudster steven, i missed you!“ms is #1 in the server industry”lol! Try #2 with about 30%. 2/3rds of the internet runs on apache (under various oss including microsodt).
Please keep posting, i come here mostly for the humor! – by /sm(3:40pm est wed apr 09 2003)– by(3:41pm est wed apr 09 2003)– by(3:41pm est wed apr 09 2003)– by(3:41pm est wed apr 09 2003)– by(3:42pm est wed apr 09 2003)– by(3:42pm est wed apr 09 2003)– byopen source gloating (3:43pm est wed apr 09 2003)logic? Lol!geeks don't buy servers, their pointy haired bosses do.
Phb knew in the early '80s that “nobody ever got fired for buying ibm”.these days it's “nobody ever got fired for buying ms”. Who cares how inferior the product is? Do you think phb will understand (or care about) a word of it? – by /smms robbing kids of their lunch money errr education? (3:43pm est wed apr 09 2003)i guess once microsoft tries to rob children of their education by charging hefty licencing fees, you are in for a fight especially in oregon.linux has been making inroads into k-12 education for years, but microsoft's move to require an audit of 300 school districts nationwide has brought open source into the educational limelight. As schools analyze alternatives to hefty licensing fees, lugs and linux-in-education organizations are pointing out that open source solutions are better suited to the educational environment, and are only a fraction of the cost.linux in education: open source provides a better solution for schools– by(3:44pm est wed apr 09 2003)– by.yep (4:33pm est wed apr 09 2003).still looks like an 8 to mepossibly a 9 by the time any new articles get postedall one has to do is post anything about ms and the linux zealot (opensourcegloating/by/linuxrulez/etc) begins posting all his artices. Boy, you have way too much time on your hands – by hmmmmhmmmm (4:41pm est wed apr 09 2003)are you saying that all those linux zealots are one guy?
Instead of an investigative report explaining why austin pays twice for every copy of microsoft windows it gets, the news i have to report was slipped in over the transom one night. It came in the form of an e-mail that appeared to be from jon harris, a deputy cio with the city of austin.
However, when i checked with harris the next day, i learned he hadn't sent it. He did, however, confirm its contents:brownlee bowmer, city of austin chief information officer, will be reassigned to water & wastewater cio as of april 1, 2003. Pete collins will be replacing brownlee and acting cio for the city.according to other anonymous sources, this is probably only the first move in a massive reorganization of the city's is infrastructure. Whatever the true significance of the move, and whatever the final shape of the city's is department in the future, i think it is clear that bowmer is not being rewarded for his handling of the microsoft debacle. Have microsoft's strong-armed tactics in texas actually ended up hurting their business here? That could be. Consider that pesky bill in the senate when i mentioned to bray that senator carona's bill might give linux and other free/open-source solutions more visibility in state government, he replied “we're certainly looking at it.”open source making headway in texas governmentis microsoft losing the hearts & minds of texans?
Signs point to yesi guess the moral of the story is if microsoft messes with texas, texas messes with microsoft. – byre: /sm: meanwhile in texas (6:32pm est wed apr 09 2003)actually it should be:(pointy head boss) phb loses ms licenses and can't account for the missing ms licenses and settles with ms and loses his job and get transferred to a sh.tty job literally. wasterwater – byexactly what authority does the bsa have? (7:32pm est wed apr 09 2003)who actually gives authority to bsa to enforse their will? What happens if i don't pay them? I mean who get's the money that is collected?
When last i visited with the texas department of criminal justice (tdcj), i spoke with larry todd of tdcj's media relations department. Todd bravely asserted that tdcj was not going to cave in to microsoft and was fighting microsoft's claims that tdcj owed them millions of dollars. This is exactly the same sort of “marketing” that microsoft had used successfully in austin and elsewhere.at the time, tdcj had just installed a new division manager (robert bray) for its it department, and my gloomy prognostication was that tdcj might struggle for a while but then eventually cave in as well. This week, i am happy to report that is definitely not the case.i spoke with bray by phone recently and asked for an update on the situation. Bray said, “we have computers, many of which are six, seven or even eight years old. The state only requires us to keep records for five years.
We couldn't show proof of ownership of all the operating systems and microsoft office licenses that we had.”. Evidently, redmond believes its licenses trump state law and demanded that tdcj agree to an expensive licensing scheme or face millions of dollars in fines. Tdcj's own audit showed it was short about 2,000 licenses.
The cost of those licenses was $283,000.bray said microsoft “wanted us to go to seat-management, and that was in the millions of dollars. We simply didn't have the money.” tdcj sent microsoft a check for $283,000 instead of signing a multi-million dollar contract and considers the situation resolved. – bythe extra microsoft tax might indirectly cause more crime. (8:07pm est wed apr 09 2003)if microsoft gets its multi-million dollar contract from the texas department of criminal justice, they tdcj should have the prison release program start from the lobby of microsoft in richardson, texas (telecom corridor).
– bykill all the lawyers (8:55pm est wed apr 09 2003)till today, i thought the bsa was a bunch of kids that like to go camping.i keep +$100k of pirated software on my machines at home and the only legit copy of anything i have is tomb raider and that was before i bought dual plextors and could copy it. Maybe microsoft is a virus, oozing into all corners of the digital flesh only to feed on and wither the host. Maybe microsoft is more like heroine addiction and open source is the only way to kick it.personally, i am addicted to ways i can get software for free.
Warez is like crack, and no talk of morality or decency will change my mind. – by bsa target?insecurity? (11:28pm est wed apr 09 2003)disc copy protection, cd keys, supposed 'pirate proof' encryption.what a load of crap. Its the same as having locks on a car or a house.it will only keep the 'honest' ppl outif someone wants to get in, they will find a way. I dont think there will ever be a true 'pirate proof' piece of software – by korbenummm, m-soft! (12:21am est thu apr 10 2003)actually it's pretty smart move on m-softs side leak the code so everyone can keep using windows products eventually everyone will be stuck on windows servers and platforms they will gain more and more of a thresh hold on the market!smart bill! Always thinking!
– by x-plattformkorben (12:21am est thu apr 10 2003)dontcha remember quake iii? I don't think a crack for it ever came out or half-life for that matter (multi-player mode that is) – by godno crack for quake iii / half-life (9:13am est thu apr 10 2003)well, copy-protecting pc-games is a bit different from copy-protecting server operating systems. So many games are published every month and even initially good games are obsolete in a few month. Microsoft really scored a goal there, but for which side?
Not their own, i guess. – by disckillerms can't stop it period. (9:41am est thu apr 10 2003)i have a pirated copy of winxp and i've updated iteven installed sp1, which you're not supposed to be able to do with a pirated copy. I downloaded a simple patch which runs a wizard to change the product key, which also supplied me with about 10 valid product keys. I then ran windows update as though i were legit as bill gate$ himself.
– by hamarketing (9:45am est thu apr 10 2003)“polls say 'no one is going to buy w2k3'”.gates, “linux is free. How do we compete?”marketing, “give away w2k3.”gates, “or let them think it's free. Hire 1500 direct sales and 3000 piracy lawyers.”news headline, “2004 ms record profits” – by bill gatesnot good (10:10am est sun apr 13 2003)choose linux for advanced security – by the globemicrosoft haters for no good reason (3:08am est sat may 24 2003)from reading your comments i take it you are all microsoft haters and linux lovers (sorry to those who aren't).now this is what i have to say to all you linux lovers:there is absolutely nothing you can do with linux (application wise) that i can do with windows. You may argue that windows costs more than linux but when you consider that if you have a particular problem on one client's windows box, you can guarantee that the fix will work on every other windows box for every other client you have. They are all the same distribution of windows and i'm sure of that because they're all from the same company.i think before you all continue taking your pot shots at microsoft and their products, you should all uninstall your windows xp machines and practice what you preach. I've used linux from the days of slackware 2 up to now i have mandrake 8 installed.
Yes it's nice and it's very stablebut it doesn't hold a candle to the flexibility of my windows 2000 server. Up and running 4 years now. And it's home built using cheap parts.all i'm saying is, try it before you bash it.
And if you insist on bashing it, don't fucking use it. Cuz i know that every one of you no named cowards out there are using windows. – by no named coward toothe endless ride (10:22pm est mon may 26 2003)the code would have been out sooner or latersorry ms – just have to sit back and enjoy the ride. Hey how about stop ripping us of our code and we'll stop ripping you of yours, although you don't really have any code after ours was somehow put on your f#$%.n 2000 platforms – you f#$%.n bitc#esi have no mercy now anything and everything of yours will be everyones!! As they say, what goes around comes around – and yours is coming around fast!no doubt – open/s is the way, but not after i have some fun fu.ing up ms for fuc.ing me and our little company:: – by ravenew slogan for microsoft (5:26pm est tue may 27 2003)and the winner of the ms windows 2003 slogan contest is a quote from the ms hater-hater: (2 posts above). “there is absolutely nothing you can do with linux (application wise) that i can do with windows.”truer words were never spoken loland by the way, the reason we're posting from windows boxes is we're at work, and our phbs are ms dupes.
“gee, if i'm not getting reamed financially, i don't feel like i've invested enough in my it infrastructure” – by cha-chawhere is it? (2:01pm est tue jun 03 2003)all i want to know is. Where can i find this key on the internet? – by brianproduct key (4:59pm est thu jun 05 2003)hay howar u tell me about key – by rajeshmicrosoft is a ass copmany (5:03pm est thu jun 05 2003)your window is very bad – by ashishwhere the hell do i find the damned code? (4:14am est sat jun 14 2003)where the hell do i find the damned code? I have tried all the ones on the net, and they do not work.
Sure they allow me to install the operating system however, they do not allow for activation.is there a link to an activation crack, that someone could post. – by arpacenice (6:22pm est wed jun 18 2003)wow, it's really amazing how uneducated most of you are. How some of you shout out statements that are utterly false and ignorant.three cheers for disinformation! – by dnmgreedy (3:31pm est sun jun 22 2003)if microsoft lowered the price of their os then there would be less prites going around but since windows 2003 enterprise is at £3599 that means for me to use the hacked version come on you cant spend that much on a os on one can espically for home its all microsoft fault.
As i say “you may stop me but you wont stop as all”. – by riki have the code i also have an msdn version of all the os (12:19pm est tue jun 24 2003)but windowsupdate not working pisses me off. Like some one said up there. I use none ligit copys because all i want it for it to learn.
And do you really think and 21 could afford w2k3??? With them blocking windowsupdates im not going to be able to donwload new security updates which will make me a target for an attack. And if i get hacked i aint going to recomend it to work its that simple. Most companys will not use copyed sw for the risk of getting caught.what wrong with just using it to lean???ps if anyone can help me get windowsupdates working that would be great – by money aint everythinyou know.
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(3:19pm est mon jun 30 2003)after looking at the time and expense of dealing with servers, operating systems, training, problem resolution, it staff, lawsuits, hackers, security software, lost data due to 'upgrades' improperly implemented, applications that don't run. I just have to say this. Corollary: back the wto, nafta, etc. To extend the reach of the law in this manner, ones reach extends to all corners of the earth and for decades into the futurecorollary: mske huge political contributions to assure the desired outcome if the president invites you to play golf and “contribute”, do so immediately or face a department of justice investigation.– by wyl newlandw2k3s vs linux/unix (1:33am est fri feb 13 2004)from my point of view, windows should be a 'internal' operating system if you will, for running active directory and controlling client computers.
When you get into the meat of active directory, exchange server, and the rest of the fun mmc stuff, it gets pretty intense. Linux is quickly shifting over to a desktop system, and not used as much on servers anymore. Sun solaris, freebsd, and openbsd are your real best bets for server operating systems on the market today. I remember not that long ago, that a msn.com web server got 'hacked', and i saw a quote saying, “if microsoft can't secure there own software, who can?”. And i have to totally agree with that.
Putting a microsoft server (usually iis) on the internet, is like leaving a $100 bill on the bench in a mall, someones going to get it. This is my two cents. – by mx3open your ears (7:07pm est thu mar 11 2004)ok, so many of you hate ms with a passion. Don't we all. The fact of the matter isthey're not going away anytime soon.
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And for all you linux lovers, do a net search for sco and linux lawsuit.it seems our good friends at sco, makers of caldera linux, are attempting to kill linux. Hmmm ms not looking so bad after all? Is this an ms backed ploy to get rid of their most solid competitor? Potentially yes on both.
Inside sources have informed me of a ms involvement/kickback to the now owners of unix, sco. It seems good 'ol uncle bill won't be happy til he owns the world. Anyway, keep in mind this is a pending legal action that could go both ways. Despite the all encompassing rumors of how expensive ms is for all you people in the technical field, let me remind you of something. Most people that pirate software are techs of some kind. Most people who run pirated servers are techs of some kind.
Why put yourself in the line of fire when you can go the easy route to be legal and legit? How you might ask when ms charges such outrageous prices for software. Answer: microsoft action pack subsciption. You pay $319/year for 10 user licences on all ms software (non-server) and 1 license on all server software.
Nice thing is when ms comes out with updates or new software, it's mailed to you with licenses free of charge. This packages also comes with complete tutorial and implementation discs as well. This is an nfr subscription which cannot be resold is the only catch. For all of you purists out there that hate to pay ms a dime for any subscriptions may want to consider the options. Besides that those of you who actually read the license agreements should actually know that with all new ms products as of 2002, you no longer own the software but are merely leasing it from ms to begin with. At any point in time they could force subscriptions (shooting themselves in the foot in my humble opinion) for all existing ms users of xp and beyond.
Not to be one to jump onto the bandwagon, i would definately recommend looking into this as a viable solution regardless of the status of the linux suit. Btw, for the record i use both linux and ms 2003 sbs server software on machines here. Though i don't happen to like ms, i do realize that they're not going anyway anytime soon. Take it from a tech of 16 years field experience and owner of a successful solutions provider, bsa can only nail you for what you don't have. – by master technicianaddendum to my above post (7:08pm est thu mar 11 2004)start your research into the action pack subscription here:– by master techniciancompare to other operating system (1:22am est fri may 06 2005)compare to other operating systemexample: compare and contrast between ms xp and ms2003 server – by aruleuew.ouch!!!!
(7:41pm est sat nov 19 2005)well then if you can't afford to buy ms word or windows xp then you shouldn't have bought yourself a computer to begin with!!! It's just like the old saying.get the 'whole' car “”free”” all you have to do is buy the key!!!!roflmao!!!! – by computergospelms word 2003 activation wizard? (8:50pm est mon dec 05 2005)how do you deactivate the activation wizard for microsoft office 2003???