[AmericaUnited]

Some of these concerns are phony such as the "What if it phones home and the Internet is down...". I'm sure Microsoft will post a notice and give the user something like 14 days to re-validate someway.

[-YYZ-]

Yeah, because Microsoft cares so very much about their customers, right?

I decide I just must have Vista on my desktop for some reason, I'll probably just wait for a hacked and cracked copy of it to become available. Yes, pirated. Just as with XP, Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts actually encourage it in some circumstances. No, that's not some sort of rationalization for piracy, I'm just stating of fact of how I and many other people viewed this issue with XP, and will with Vista (if there's any way at all around MS's schemes).

[SauronOfMordor]

Some of these concerns are phony such as the "What if it phones home and the Internet is down...".

What if it's a computer that the owner, for security reasons, does not wish to be connected to the Internet?

[zeugma]

Some of these concerns are phony such as the "What if it phones home and the Internet is down...". I'm sure Microsoft will post a notice and give the user something like 14 days to re-validate someway.

One of the things that I think is most interesting about this license, is that it apparently denies the right of people to use the software in a non-networked environment. I think MS is going to get nailed by that eventually.