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From the article it looks like MS can decide to disable your copy of windows whenever it feels. Oh Joy (again).

Cheers for that. You hearing the march of the penguins too?

I'm already one of the penguin brigade for work.

It is a shame as I started on windows NT 3.5 and while there were improvements I'm just thinking they are getting a bit rediculous.

This is definately stay with XP or go to Mac/penguin time for me as I don't trust MS to do just what they say after the last WGA **** up.

MS have been able to do that with XP for a while now, WGA is a wonderfull thing. TBH, if you are using a legit copy of vista then you have nothing to fear.

:iagree: its like moaning that the police can arrest you for stealing a car :P

Nope, MS have managed to screw up quite spectacularly and WGA doesn't stop your PC working totally if it thinks you are not licenced last i checked.

MS have gone for a few false positives as opposed to a few false negative approach meaning PC's have been zapped. Look at what they did to the Xbox 360's too.

I'm sorry if you find it acceptable for the PC to report back to the mothership whenever it feels like it, but i don't like that. I don't fancy leaving a firewall hole so it can do that either.

Also say you use bitlocker, MS decides incorrectly that you are not legit, and knocks your pc for 6. What happened to your data?

I want total control of my PC, which is something I had previously.

its like moaning that the police can arrest you for stealing a car :P

It's more like the Police being able to arrest and fine you, and confiscate your car, because your insurance company doesn't supply data to the national insurance database, or the database is wrong for some reason.