Microsoft's "black screen" is a wrong path -

by 250028262 on 2008-10-23 18:08:33

According to Microsoft China's so-called "Genuine Advantage Program", starting from today, the computers of non-genuine Windows XP users will be forcibly blacked out once an hour by the company through a software validation system. Non-genuine users of Office software will have non-genuine labels forcibly added after a 30-day reminder period. This decision, announced on October 15th, immediately caused a huge stir in China. The results of an online survey on a certain website showed that among nearly 70,000 netizens who participated in the voting, only 5.36% supported Microsoft, thinking that this compulsory verification was nothing wrong, while 92.18% were opposed, among which those who believed that "the price of genuine products is really too high, willing to continue using pirated products" accounted for 67.79%.