but the way to alienate your customers is to treat them all as thieves.
Thus far, Microsoft has walked a fine line, but that line is getting trod on more and more.
Just yesterday, a guy in, i think, California, sued Microsoft under anti-spyware laws for installing wga notification on his machine
Previously, nothing MS has done has bothered me since my copies of xp are legit, but it is becoming more and more cumbersome....I have one dedicated Linux machine already, and it wouldn't take much more for me to go linux all the way
Not because I dislike MS products...I think they are great...but the company is making bad decisions.
Probably the worst thing about all this is not the anti-piracy stuff--but the lack of transparancy in the company. Time was, they were very outgoing with their plans.
The activation process was documented and explained well before it ever was implemented...wga was too, but wga notification was snuck in without warning
Plans for a wga kill switch have neither been confirmed or denied....changes in volume licensing are vague...it concerns me
With MS's dominance in the OS market, they need to be forthright in what they are doing to maintain the consumer's trust. People already do not trust them--acting in a clandestine manner does not help them.