Hi Moira,

I had guessed that you were doing some beta testing, and I don't think you said anything that could be taken as encouraging anyone to do wrong.

You do introduce another interesting facet to the conversation though. As I see it the "security" that has been hyped is the system and user security angle? The question of piracy is a whole different ball game IMO.

I am not too surprised that the betas have been pirated as I probably wouldn't want my DRM out there for the pirates to practice on

However it is slightly worrying given their last DRM attempt. I have had several boxes with "illegal" copies of XP on them when the only problem was the battery and/or clock/calendar setting.

I am rather concerned as to what their latest effort will be

fourdc The way I see it is if you roll out Vista it is a clean install and effectively a new PC situation? You would test it on your "reference boxes", build your ISO/Mirror and away you go?

With Office and Exchange, I would suggest it might be influenced by where you are upgrading from, as you might have a user training issue. Over here I know a lot of places that still use Office 97 or at best, 2000.