Your OS legit?

GrumPy

Well, dunno if this has been done before - but how many boardsies have paid for legit versions of there operating systems installed on there pc's?

Creamy Goodness

yes

Zapp Brannigan

Came with this piece of crap from Dell.

I've always wondered though, would a cracked OS not be picked up on by Microsoft or anything?

Hagar

Slurms wrote:

I've always wondered though, would a cracked OS not be picked up on by Microsoft or anything?

Yes it can. We're running checks right now on the two posters who gave themselves away in the poll.

rick_fantastic

mines an "educational copy" of windows professional

Gordon

I'm passing on IP addresses as we speak.

Fajitas!

Mine came with.

rick_fantastic

go for it man.... im sitting in a computer lab in dit twiddling my thumbs waiting for the feds to bust thru the door!

rick_fantastic

sorry double post, pc froze while i was frantically clicking the submit post button!

CiaranC

I think you spelled 'Linux' wrong in option 4 there

B00MSTICK

Linux and an employee purchased WinXP here

michaela

whats an OS?

Hagar

There is an outside chance that "Atari Jaguar" could be a valid answer.
It wouldn't be pretty or work fast but it might work.*



* Yeah, right.

GrumPy

CiaranC wrote:

I think you spelled 'Linux' wrong in option 4 there

humour? I assume it is :rolleyes: considering I never named an OS, just a general poll, be it windows/linux whatever. Btw, Im legit, Dell machine (sh!t€) about 2 years old.

tman

2 legit 2 quit yo

*picks monkey fur out of cd drive*

Calibos

Legit versions of XP home for both PC's that came with both Dells. ie OEM XP. One is still running legit version and the newer PC is running Media Centre Edition (MCE) which may or may not be legit. Not tellling!........explicitly

Seeing as MS where stingy enough to only alow Xbox360 Video Streaming via MCE and not vanilla XP, I am stingy enough to maybe or maybe not pay €140 for MCE, especially seeing as I will only be needing it for a few months till Vista comes out with its MCE functionality as standard, which I most definately will be purchasing, no ifs, buts or maybes!

GrumPy

Calibos wrote:

Seeing as MS where stingy enough to only alow Xbox360 Video Streaming via MCE and not vanilla XP, I am stingy enough to maybe or maybe not pay €140 for MCE

Hehe *sees similarity and giggles* Yeah, MS bastids for the MCE only streaming.

Lord Oz

The last OS I bought was Windows 2000, and I'm using it right now. Btw, there are paid versions of linux too.

djmarkus

yes (points at sig)

petes

Yep. Legit here. Came with the lappy.

scojones

My OS is free. Imagine that!

Giblet

2 legit 2 quit

Sparky

2 legit XP oem pros for built Pc's and 2 preinstalled Os's on the lappy and the business desktop

neacy69

not legit on home pc
legit on laptop
as for office well thats another story

A Dub in Glasgo

Copy of Windows 2000 from work with the serial number from the net

Lump

Legit Copy of XP.

John

matrim

I've a ligit copy on my laptop and one desktop.
I've a dual boot between a copy of Fedora and a copy of XP pro I borrowed from my last job on my spare pc that I use as a server.

mp3guy

CiaranC wrote:

I think you spelled 'Linux' wrong in option 4 there

Yeah, I missed that too. Just picked option 3, since I didn't pay for ubuntu

WizZard

Yes, couple of legit copies of XP (OEM) and Gentoo.

Blowfish

Irish GrumPy wrote:

humour? I assume it is :rolleyes: considering I never named an OS, just a general poll, be it windows/linux whatever.

I think you are missing the point that a lot of Linux distros are free anyway, so the poll is pretty much useless as option 3 could be perfectly legit.

Oh and I have 2 legit OEM XP pro, SuSe 10 OSS, and OpenBSD, which are both free and legit, plus a few others lying around.

Ruu_Old

Got XP Home with the lappy but will have to fork out a few dollah for xp pro oem($139) or just stick with xp home oem for $84.99 both with SP2 for my new machine that Im working on.