ok, let add my two cents, on why I'm still here. originally came from the facebook ad the Times ran, haven't read it but got caught up here.. having evangelized M$ for many years based on Bill's "tool" concept, I believe that their Vista product is a Millennium clone. a transposition between a suckier system and a mega-monopoly looking for no insides and no outsides to dispersement of information hence DRM.

They aren't protecting Hollywood they just wished they invented iTunes is all, hell they did with xbox live! so whats the issue? $300 a copy for an OS thats slow, tedious, and a crappy clone of OSX $800 for office thats just plain stupid. Stupid is as stupid does eh?

I'm just not into M$ anymore. meddling into my affairs like: facebook, Google, binding beacons and the proliferation of crapmail yeah,next they'll charge us for mail..... there's a place for them in the giant scheme of things but I'm no longer going to beta testing for them for free period. and when they charge me for something. I expect it to be fair! not over a thousand bucks either! Hell! the hardware is cheaper..UBUNTU is free and with the internet I can do everything else. s'cuse my French but, fuck M$. When they get rid of Balmer and bring back a kindler gentler version of Bill, I might reconsider but I'm turning the tidal wave on their products over to OPEN-SOURCE.

RANT off...