[Liverpool] vi$ta

[Vladimir]

paying M$ £100??? nooooo way! :D

2009/7/29 Hakim Cassimally <hakim.cassimally at gmail.com>

> 2009/7/29 Vladimir <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com>:
> > hi, ppl!
> > i just wonder does anyone have a m$ vi$ta cd's + license that is not
> needed?
> > it is for wine dev/test purposes.
> > just don't feel comfortable with idea of paying micro$oft :)
>
> If you can't find a donated copy of Vista, but would like to test with
> it *legally*, you could do worse than sign up for their BizSpark
> programme.
> This isn't entirely free (you have to pay them £100 in 3 years time)
> but you can download everything (OS and apps) from them in the
> meantime.
>
> As discussed on Geekup ml recently, this has a slight bootstrapping
> issue (you can only download a Windows OS from a Windows OS, which
> means that in my case I'd have to consider installing an illegitimate
> copy of Windows temporarily, and solely for the purpose of downloading
> an entirely legitimate copy to test with.  Hey ho.
>
> osfameron
>
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