[George W. Bush]

Will sales zune too?

No. Microsoft will refuse to sell copies of XP to Dell/HP/Gateway or in retail packages. So they'll sell them because you won't be able to buy computers with XP and Vista will be included "free". Just like they've done before.

Microsoft is a damned monopoly. I hope the EU continues to go after them on it and on DRM. I noticed that the EU, led by Norway, is going after Apple for their far less intrusive DRM as well. It's all good.

On the DRM thing, it's clear now that M$'s draconian PlaysForSure DRM is a squalid failure and will never succeed. So now Microsoft is pretending to be anti-DRM (for audio CDs) to placate Europe and to hurt Apple's very profitable iTunes store. To make it even more fun, M$'s stupid Zune wireless thing of share-and-play-it-3-times policy has now been shortcircuited by some of their music suppliers so you can't even do their puny worthless filesharing thing.

Microsoft really needs to get some smarter marketing and design people. Geez.

[CedarDave]

No. Microsoft will refuse to sell copies of XP to Dell/HP/Gateway or in retail packages. So they'll sell them because you won't be able to buy computers with XP and Vista will be included "free". Just like they've done before.

So, after tonight we won't be able to buy a legal copy of XP? Is that what you're saying???