Mike Hearn wrote:
It appears that Photo Story is *only* available if you validate, it's not optional in this case.
If you click "Download Photo Story 3" here you are told to validate:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/defau...
While this app is given away for free, presumably it's still illegal product tying as Photo Story *could* run on Wine, but due to this block Wine users are being prevented from downloading it.
You can get it from : http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/Photo-Story-3-for-Windows/3000-2204_2-1033915... and other servers out there as well.... This is just another M$ stunt, every piece of there software can be found on third party servers. I've not looked for office updates but im sure someone is hosting them besides Microsoft.
In our FAQ we need to point out Wine can run applications that are built for a number of windows versions. And the user should start with win98 and try different settings if they run into win version errors.
We should also point that due to WGA we suggest using google to search for third party hosting of files there looking for.......... and just boycott these sons of bitches!.
Anything else that may be of relevance?
Tom
thanks -mike