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  • deanos
    deanos Posts: 11,241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Uniform Washer
    stupid.daniel wrote: »
    are you sure this is...legal?

    Seems fine to me, they take you to MS to download
  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,415 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    Perfectly legal - loads of free downloads from Microsoft if you look around. They charge premiums for things like the OS and Office etc, but these are downloads to work with the software you have bought from them, a lot of them are extensions of the original software.
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • Jenna_Appleseed
    Jenna_Appleseed Posts: 6,530 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    some useful links there - thanks
    "And suddenly I find myself listening to a man I've never known before,
    Telling me about the sea..."
  • PeterPerfect
    PeterPerfect Posts: 83 Forumite
    These are small programs created by Microsoft developers as tests etc, and thus some software is only temporary or out of date, which have become popular and thus are available as free downloads. There is a legal connection to the Microsoft site, rather than on a third party which maybe illegal. Note, just tried the pasta theme, and the link has gone now (2006 !)
  • herman2811
    herman2811 Posts: 1,080 Forumite
    Are the programs in the link all latest versions?

    I'm confused because I was thinking to update my version of Windows Movie Maker, and on the above link it is version 2.1, and on my vista laptop (1 year old) it is version 6.something.
  • rosemac
    rosemac Posts: 6,576 Forumite
    just sign up for updates then you can choose what crap you want on your pc or not
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