Does Microsoft even have any idea how much this will hurt their business?
I’ve done a lot of server roll-outs in my time and evaluation of new products. 90% of the time if it was a Microsoft product, the evaluation occurred due to a handy TechNet subscription.
In many cases I never would’ve even bothered to consider a Microsoft product if it weren’t literally at my fingertips to evaluate.
And that then lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars of software purchases.
Very smart – avoid $1 of piracy so you can “avoid” a million dollars in revenue. Sounds like a winner to me.
And this means that anyone who absolutely has to test something or learn it will now pirate it.
What the hell is wrong with Microsoft?