Pirating an operating system is asinine. The only time you are really "sticking it to the man" is when the man is charging ridiculous prices for a product they have a monopoly on. Although it could be argued that Microsoft has a monopoly, it isn't a monopoly on operating systems. It is a monopoly on THEIR operating system.…
as soon as: 3dsmax maya zbrush photoshop ableton live UDK gaming (to a lesser extent) become supported fully on Linux, i'll be leaving windows behind forever. that said, it's a voluntary update, and i'm sure the pirate community couldn't care less.
I think the reason for not installing the MS crap is that even if you have a legit copy it sometimes goes off "MWHAHAHAHA WE CAUGHT A PIRATE!!!". This dumb "upgrade" quite often ruined the day in our studio, which was full of perfectly legit windows XP copies that came with our Dell and HP workstations.
If Microsoft waits until before a major service pack, it wont really leave gamers/pirates an option. They'll either have to crack it, buy it, or keep running an inferior product. I'm sure a crack will be developed, though. @shotgun performance editions off pirate sites a stripped down operating systems, so of course its…