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ksrmicrosoft piss me off.
With all the hype around Windows 7 actually being half decent, I caved in and bought a copy given that it's only £30 for students and there are a few things which don't work too well on wine - games, photoshop, various other photographic things. So I buy it online and get two options - an ISO or an EXE. Great, I think. I'll download the ISO, burn it to disc, stick it in and I'm away. But Microsoft don't seem to know what an ISO is - both links point to EXEs. :/ Why did I ever think Microsoft had changed their ways?		2010-10-072:03 PM
BrandonRe:microsoft piss me off.
Life Lesson #1: Always buy hard copies of software.		2010-10-072:40 PM
ksrRe:microsoft piss me off.
life lesson #2: never buy legal copies of microsoft software		2010-10-073:50 PM
JFKRe:microsoft piss me off.
thats strange aye. its not a self extracting ISO? like .exe ==> .iso?   otherwise wtf		2010-10-083:26 AM
ToddRe:microsoft piss me off.
My school has something similar. The ISO is downloaded by the EXE in my situation. It's a stupid way of preventing piracy since they can easily just put the ISO on a torrent. It might be the same deal for you.		2010-10-089:39 AM
ksrRe:microsoft piss me off.
I don't know what their line of thinking was. But you can download an ISO from elsewhere so I did that and used my activation key. It turns that I'd inadvertently bought the upgrade version, but you can do a full install from an upgrade disc/iso anyway so it all worked out.		2010-10-082:15 PM

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