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   price as signal

   

   John Dowdell, Dec 1st, 2003 @ 12:52pm

   
   

   I don't know who would invest a nominal sum in buying such suspect wares, but if the production costs are minimal then there's little expense in trying to find a buyer. It's like the spam situation... you may not buy Vicondin through email, but it costs little to send you a thousand or so invitations to do so.

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   leak?

   

   aNonMooseCowherd, Dec 1st, 2003 @ 4:05pm

   
   

   Maybe MS leaked it intentionally to try to track down people who deal in such things.

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   who would buy Loghorn

   

   karateka, Dec 2nd, 2003 @ 5:29am

   
   

   People very nature is as we say in Marketing, " a sucker is born every minute." Who would spend a weeks salary for something that is just an upgraded and not very well designed Windows XP is not to far fetch. Most don't know better they think if its new its better, which of course is not always the case. As for Microsoft putting it out there, no need since anything that a company gives out at any convetion will find its way to the Internet. And the copies that are been sold probably came from the internet downloads. But why you say would any company want their software on the Internet, its simple marketing, if enough people use it at home, what do you think companies who are the real customer that any company should always stride to get will do. They will move to it once it comes out since already there are plenty of indivisual who know how to use it. Or what do you think when loghor comes out in 2 year or so, that we are all going to run out buy it and learn how to use it in a flash. No, we will have to learn how it works. Since Microsoft is not fool they probably have kill dates which will make that version of the OS dead after a year or so. Smart companies do this all the time. I know I would.

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   Just an idea

   

   AMetamorphosis, Dec 2nd, 2003 @ 8:12am

   
   

   I wonder if the spammers & hackers would be interested in getting a copy so they can get a couple of years jump on all the security loopholes that Microsoft is notorious for ...
   
   

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   longhorn

   

   kent, Dec 3rd, 2003 @ 12:11am

   
   

   well i perchance happened upon a link to a link to a link to a link which pointed me at a irc where i got an email describing a p2p file, which i downloaded and installed on my spare HD. Longhorn is still not ready to be used as a primary operating system. my guess is people are buying and installing out of curiosity (as i did), and to one up their friends. Microsoft handed hundreds of Longhorn CDs out to developers at a recent convention to give developers a headstart on creating new applications for the final release. someone obviously got a hold of that version and... maybe the best point made is that this prerelease release will probably aid hackers and virus writers intent on getting a jump on everyone. also, Longhorn is **not** built upon XP. it has a completely different file system.

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