[ex-snook]

"I personally feel MS is behind this. Crashes will force these idiots to go out and purchase another copy--thus inflating their selling numbers. "

Good one. Reopen that Anti-Trust case. Seems that the 'non-monopoly' strikes again.

Pre-installed software giving the customer all disks necessary to reinstall software should be required by the States pursuing the anti-trust case. The federal government has let Microsoft escape and it is beginning to show.

[TN Republican]

The same bastards who sued Microsoft approved that UCITA agreement on EULA's that allows them to expand such practicies with the full backing of the law.

[MikeO]

Providing recovery disks is up to the PC manufacturer, NOT Microsoft.