Bluesplinter - 11:16 pm on Oct 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

I haven't bought a PC with pre-installed Windows (other than a Dell laptop) since 2000. Since that time, I have built new machines (or materially upgraded, such as a new mobo) probably a dozen times. That'd be SIX licenses of Vista, or roughly one per year.

Yeah, that's gonna happen.

I was fairly interested in getting Vista, but now I'm looking forward to a new Mac instead. All of my major software works on a Mac (and proponents say it works BETTER on a Mac). For everything else, I'll still have XP.

So, no, I won't be snagged by this "feature"... sooner or later this will be reversed (or rather, they'll re-re-clarify, and tell us what they really, honestly meant), and when it is, I'll give Vista a try. Until that day, there are alternatives that look just fine to me.