benwinship Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 I've already posted in this thread a page or so back, but im almost certain i'll buy Leopard, £89 is a small price to pay compared with the £300 price tag of Vista Ultimate (which imo is the only version worth having). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-444909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 No, I can get XP and Vista for free through my uni. Yay for MSDNAA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-444949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireware Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 Edit: Deleted teh rant I bought a VLK kit for XP Professional, Windows was preinstalled on the other PCs... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-444962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onetrack Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 No. Unless the machine came with windows, - but systems that do that are so incredibly bloated with trialware junk they just get formatted anyways. LastXP v16, XP Black V2.8, TinyXP, LastVista, XP Indigo 5, XP Crystal etc etc.. the list goes on - The people out there make way better versions of the os than you could ever get in the store anyways. Playing around with MicroXP right not.. installs in 4 minutes in a vmware session - 11 services and 24 megs of ram at the desktop... pretty slick I say. Vista is a bloated pile of {censored} - I didn't buy OSX for my hackintosh, but I bought the wife a macbook, and my next comp is an imac, plus I ordered an ipod touch. Apple will get my money - microsoft never will. For home use of course.. at the office where I work everything is licensed to the hilt.. I just play around and format the vmwares about 10 min after they hit the desktop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-445170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappza Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 No I don't. I have a laptop from school where the licence is legal. Other than that and a few games, all my software is pirated. Included OSx86 =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-445424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dainix Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Later on I got Windows XP for free through my college's Microsoft Academic Alliance. That's how I got my copy of XP at UNO. They also offer Vista for free. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-445425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergosteur Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 never paid for windows. unless paying $0 through MSDNAA counts. Picked up a "legal" copy (as in disks, box and manual) of every version of windows from 3.1 to vista from work/school. The only windows OS i considered buying was XP (but downloads, cds and product keys were all too readily available). I have to agree that at >2gb, vista is almost not even worth the time+bandwidth. laptop came with some taiwanese linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-445723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooly Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Why should every one pay for windows, when it is available for free @ daemons. Lol! I will buy leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-445930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 i DONT; PAY FOR ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL but the 4 TB of DVDs and CDs are another storey when it coems to bit torrent...lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-446812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sej111 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I always pay Apple, they pioneered USB, FIREWIRE, the MOUSE and much more...there isn't a home computer on this planet that isn't basically a modified Mac. It's my understanding that OS X, being based on UNIX (like LINUX) cannot be copyrighted; the base UNIX kernal is public domain. EXAMPLE: You can refine the internal combustion engine all you want; but, you can’t claim the concept of the internal combustion engine as your own exclusive property. One of my favorite 'people are misinformed' things is; "OS X is based on LINUX". Apple gave-up their proprietary kernal when they scrapped OS 9, now they install their driver base and GUI on the best kernal available: UNIX. (NOTE: The Graphic User Interface technology and the Mouse all OSs use now is Apple; LINUX and WINDOWS are copies. LINUX is best described as an UNIX kernal OS with a WINDOWS driver base and an Apple GUI.) Apple used a great deal of LINUX technology in OS X, but it was a case of the offspring helping the parent grow beyond their original limits...I doubt Microsoft will ever figure that out. When Microsoft did the whole “Windows” thing and PC users thought Microsoft had invented the Sun, Apple users had already been through DOS with the first Apples, and graduated to the current Apple pioneered GUI technology before IBM built the first generic PC or Microsoft even existed, It’s my personal opinion that WINDOWS is doomed to go the way of buggy-whips and flintlocks: technology that is past it’s prime and can’t adapt. Don’t give Microsoft money...their employees are like Lemmings poised on the cliff, if you cut-off their funds, you just might save a few. Even Bill is bailing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-446879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 hmmm Unix is not free !! Unix is a proprietary kernel owned by "AT&T" made Unix available to universities and commercial firms, as well as the United States government under licenses Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-447675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sej111 Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Apparently I was wrong about public domain, but AT&T doesn't own UNIX either. Novell and SCO battle it out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-448480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUKKU Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Apparently I was wrong about public domain, but AT&T doesn't own UNIX either. Novell and SCO battle it out Unix was originally created at Bell Labs, which AT&T owned at the time. After AT&T was broken up that division was sold off to other companies and it ended up in the hands of SCO/Novell eventually Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-448657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 People pay for Windows? I thought MS just had a pricetag on it to make it look important... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-448700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 i never pay for windows, but the reason it isnt serial free is because so many people have computers that can run windows. mac has no serial number because anyone who is going to run it already has bought a mac from them so they dont need to worry about people stealing it as much Aparently Apple has never visited this site. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-449135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Aparently Apple has never visited this site. u kno that 2nd person always watching the forum with u, thats them Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-449235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorbladex401 Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Yes I payed for Windows. And everyone that has ever bought a pc from Dell, HP, Gateway, etc... has too. Which if you call into the maker they can sell you the pc without the OS. That way you dont ever have to pay for the os or u can just build a pc and put Linux on it or make a PC with parts that fully work under MacOS X. One thing I don't like about the whole Mac vs Windows thing is that no one really takes this into account. Apple is and has always been a hardware company. From the first Apple to the latest. Mac OS X is the software for you to use there hardware. Which if you ask me it's a little over priced. but thats just me. Microsoft is a software company. They make software to run on everyone else's hardware. Personally I think Apple's computers cost way too much. The cheapest computer they got is the Mac Mini that starts at $599. And it's a PoS. But you can buy a pc from Dell for like 400 and that's with the OS included. Or again you can just build your own and depending on how good of a shopper you are you can pay somewhere around 300+. Buttom line the whole thing for most people is what you feel comfortable doing. Do you want to pay alot upfront or pay for it through time. Of course you pay alot for a Mac and pay over time for a pc running Windows. Mac's probably cost so much because when you buy it your getting alot of software with that too. With Windows you don't. You just get the OS and you have to pay for the rest. I'm a Linux person myself. I'll pay for hardware and use free software. REMEMBER!!!! IF IT WASN'T FOR XEROX SELLING IT'S GUI INTERFACE TO APPLE, APPLE WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE AROUND ANYMORE. ALL HAIL XEROX! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61442-do-you-really-pay-for-windows/page/2/#findComment-449633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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