Not that this will really matter as no doubt some enterprising young shaver will figure out how to bypass or disable it, given time. The real question now is whether or not it’s actually going to be worth pirating it? Looking at the currently released screenshots and specs of Vista, it would seem that M$ have decided to take a liberal sprinkling of the best features of both KDE/Gnome Linux and OS X/Tiger desktops, dressed it all up in Vista pants and called it their own! So do we pirate Vista and rely on the kindness of fellow p2p’ers with valid installs to give us our non-critical updates? Or do we simply bite the bullet and switch to linux? Where we could rejoice in learning a new set of commands and way of working, consider it the payment for a free OS. In my opinion, the only valid reason to keep XP installed is for playing games. The only other software I can bring to mind, of which there is no real equivalent to in linux is anti-spy software. There is a very good reason for this though

So Bill say’s, ‘OK, let’s make it impossible for all these damn free loaders to copy our new OS’…
I say, ‘Fuck you Gatesy, your OS isn’t even worth pirating. Why pay good money for a KDE wannabe when you can get the real deal for diddly?!

Alas poor Windows, I knew it well.
A desktop of infinite jest.

Look out Linux, here I come!

Baggy