Microsoft...oh how lame you are...
I found an informative little piece about Microsoft's new plans for copy protrecting it's new operating system, Vista.
According to the article, if MS finds out that you are running a pirated version of Vista, it's pretty much going to hold your computer's functionality for ransom. They will limit your connectivity and stop applications from running. Sounds a bit big brotherish to me. Now...let's be fair here, I can respect the fact that MS does need to protect their intellectual property, but at the same time, turning off functionality is going a step too far, a la the Sony Rootkit.
I doubt that in the end this proposed anti-pirating measure is going to be stuck down, but as for now, it's just another excellent reason to switch to Linux. Speaking of which, I'm just about to install Xubuntu, or perhaps Ubuntu Lite onto this terrible little old laptop that I have kicking around. Hopefully I can turn it into a Samba Server and finally have a method to share files.
