18Dec/06Off
Vista is the “hardest to pirate yet”
So ZDNet has a story about Microsoft fighting piracy of Windows Vista. The final quote is "Vista is the hardest system to pirate that we have yet released." I it. It's classic Microsoft myopia.
Let's consider how hard Microsoft's other products were to pirate...
- Windows 3.1: Trivial
- Windows 95: Trivial
- Windows 98: Trivial
- Windows Me: Trivial
- Windows NT: Trivial
- Windows 2000: Slightly more than trivial.
- Windows XP: Annoying, and not trivial.
- Windows 2003: Annoying, and not trivial.
The problem with Microsoft using their own prior products as a yardstick is that it doesn't make for a very interesting measurement.