I risk prosecution by posting this but it's too good to pass up.
I recently replaced the hard drive in my laptop and had to reinstall Vista, all my old programs, yada yada.
Now I have a *legal* copy of Microsoft Office 2007 that came with my laptop. For some reason, this refuses to install on my machine. Neither does a (legally) downloaded installer work with my (legal) product key.
Finally, after wasting the greater part of a day mucking about, I download an *illegal* (here's the part where the lawyers get excited) copy of MS Office and lo! The damn thing installs right in!
So in the end, I had spent $149 on a copy of Office that refused to work for me and a cracked install did the job in less than 5 minutes.
I have since re-registered my 'cracked' Office with my legal product key.
Evidently the software pirates are better at coding installers than the programmers at a multi-billion dollar company.
Go figure.
(PS: Ximian lives in India and she wants a grant to go home and roam around her motherland. That puts Microsoft to shame.)
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Ximian is making use of the white man's abundant money in difficult economic times. Or atleast she is hoping to!
ReplyDeleteXimian must be commended for attempting such bravery.