The Register meldt dat door een foutje bij Microsoft er 100.000 volledige Windows 2000 cd's aan PC blaadjes zijn geplakt. Het was natuurlijk de bedoeling dat dit 120 dagen werkende trial versies zouden zijn, maar al snel bleek dat dit niet het geval was. Het betreffende blad had nog nooit zoveel exemplaren verkocht 
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Microsoft faces something of a licensing issue in Spain, following the accidental free distribution of an estimated 100,000 copies of full, non time-limited Windows 2000. The code was cover-mounted by the Spanish edition of IDG's PC World, which we understand has had record-breaking sales for the month.
In the wake of the Windows 2000 launch Microsoft has been liberally sprinkling 120 day trial versions of the product around the industry (very decently stumping up to do so via The Register, among other places). This was the version that was intended to go out with PC World, but finger-trouble somewhere let the real thing escape instead.
Working on a retail price for Win2k of Pts 57,000, or $330, and assuming circulation of 100,000, that puts Microsoft's loss at a cool $33 million. We know that's not really what Microsoft has lost, because few, probably very few, of the now proud owners of a gratis Win2k would actually have bought it. But as certain software companies habitually just multiply the number of counterfeit copies by the price in order to estimate their piracy "losses," there's an exquisite irony associated with doing the sums this way.
Bedankt movemoor voor de tip.
) dan komen we beter uit. Daarnaast zou 25% de versie legaal gekocht hebben, komen we op $2,500,000 uit.
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