Comments on: The secret of corporate success: give Microsoft more money

By: Windows 7’s Disingenuous “Advantage” | PC Pro blog

Windows 7’s Disingenuous “Advantage” | PC Pro blog — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:02:14 +0000

[...] The other two reports were less credible. Last October’s Harrison Group report, Impact of Unlicensed Software on Mid-Market Companies (PDF), claimed to show that unlicensed software caused “poor business performance”; as I noted at the time, its methodology was fundamentally flawed. [...]

By: Google shadow

Google shadow — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:47:10 +0000

Giving Microsoft more money, what exactly is that suppose to imply?

By: music downloads

music downloads — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:06:09 +0000

The best of microsoft is yet to come. well… that’s just my opinion

By: gemini tattoos

gemini tattoos — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:31:46 +0000

Just pray microsoft don’t make any further changes with their policy

By: logan

logan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:33:43 +0000

can’t wait for micro soft to release the surface computing tool.

By: uk money programs

uk money programs — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:58:37 +0000

uk money programs…

you won’t beleive this…

By: uk money programs

uk money programs — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:06:54 +0000

uk money programs…

here in the uk, thinga are’nt so bad…

By: Sian

Sian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:34:50 +0000

“cough up the money like good little girls and boys will enjoy porn-star quality sex, three times a day, every day”

To whom should I make my cheque payable?

By: David Wright

David Wright — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:51:54 +0000

The biggest problem, for companies that are really abusing the licensing situation, as opposed to those that have “lost count” by a couple of licences, is: if you are cutting corners on buying licences, you are probably cutting corners on equipment as well, possibly on staff and processes as well.

If you are employing a non-certified admin, who doesn’t know his IPSEC from his bicep, equipment bought on the cheap and don’t have the backup and disaster recovery processes in place for when something goes wrong, it wouldn’t be a wonder that things often go pear-shaped.

If you actually have a process in place to ensure each machine is licenced, you will probably also have policies and processes in place for security, backups and recovery. Likewise, you are probably buying decent kit and not cutting corners all over the place.

I think that unlicenced software is more a sympton, than the cause, of such problems.

By: Lise

Lise — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:33:41 +0000

the research only looked for correlations; it didn’t investigate cause and effect at all. Piracy has been implicated in any number of meaningless correlations.