Saturday, April 28, 2007

Windows XP - Mozilla Firefox Edition


It seems as if Microsoft efforts at fighting piracy have pissed off pirates in Asia. Recently they have started bundling Mozilla Firefox with pirated copies of Windows XP. The one pictured above includes Mozilla Firefox and VLC Media Player, along with Microsoft's Media Center. No traces of Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player anywhere.

I'm sure Microsoft isn't too pleased.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good Job, If I could remove all those elements in my copy easily I most certainly would, but the process to do so is a painful one...lol I'll just go grab that pirated version :)

Anonymous said...

It seems as if the Police efforts at fighting burglars have pissed off burglars in Asia. Poor buggers...

Anonymous said...

To the first anonymous: ever since XP SP1, it has been really easy to 'turn off' Windows Media Player and IE.

Start > Software > Program Access

One of the very few things Microsoft had to do to get rid of the DoJ.

Anonymous said...

Strange 'cause I've disabled IE like that and it still pops up with adverts which are now blank pages due to the ad-blocker.

Calvine said...

Well written article.