Comments on: Don’t Download Office OGA and Windows Genuine Advantage WGA Validation Crack

By: unwilliam gates

unwilliam gates — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:40:16 +0000

Just because you failed with the patch doesn’t mean you need to pretend to be righteous again and tell us how bad it is.
The fact is Linux has become a very real rival for windoze, and it is far from user unfriendly. Oh and…. it’s free.
you don’t have to crawl back for updates every day and keep paying for more broken software every 2 years either. All your office apps, web apps etc are included too.
Within the next 3 years legions of MS sheep will migrate to the more powerful and elegant Linux and save billions. But for now just keep pretending you didn’t try to escape i suppose. Bahhhhh!

By: Tom Z

Tom Z — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:42:34 +0000

Having one hack or crack torrent be infected is no proof all are. As always, do not get any software from an unreliable source unless you TEST it first on a non-critical system, one with AV, malware scanners, and a known set of running processes/services/etc BEFORE installing the patches so you know what’s been added.

I’m sorry you had problems but they are not in fact “usually infected”.

On the other hand, I agree if someone isn’t willing to pay for their software they should use free alternatives instead. Having to hack software, be weary of WGA updates, and even then being stuck with interoperability of files created in proprietary formats is just too much of a hassle to do the work most people use office suites for and I didn’t even mention the bloat of MS Office. (DOH!)

By: timothy

timothy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:05:26 +0000

linux unfriendly? don’t think so ;)
they have huge community’s in case you have trouble’s; and if you download something from torrents or p2p networks.. scan it first ;)