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paid software?

#1 polarpimp

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 09:18 PM

How do computer technicians install paid software on every pc that they fix?

#2 http.pipelining

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 10:12 PM

Some software offer you a trial version for a certain amount of time.The technician might have installed a trial version

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 12:13 AM

Or they charge you for it. And some unscrupulous 'technicians' install pirated copies.

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#4 ThunderZ

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:54 AM

The shop I know and have worked with buy a VLK = Volume Lic. Key. They get a discount rate and usually pass along a percentage of the savings over the single copy price to the customer.

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 05:43 AM

Animal's explanation is the most plausible. We see it here all the time. Users should question the technician but most of them don't.

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 10:06 AM

polarpimp, on Jul 25 2009, 09:18 PM, said:

How do computer technicians install paid software on every pc that they fix?

Do they? OR is that maybe a bit of a generalised statement?

And, as Animal says, one has to be on the alert for the 'pirates' :trumpet:

At the end of the day it is YOUR computer and should only have on it what YOU want on it and not what a technician tries to tell you you MUST have :flowers: