You May Be A Victim of Piracy!
We’ve all seen that mesage somewhere or other, but check out what I found on The Life of Ken (an awesome blog, I suggest reading).
From what I can gather, if you don’t have the nag screens installed, Windows just won’t turn on for you one morning. So anyone who wants a copy of linux and some tutorials of how to use it off of me: just let me know.
I’ll do it for free, which is a total saving of £149 over the alternative. Which I should add is such a con as their new OS is so near, forcing people pay for an upgrade too. They pulled the same scam on XP 64-bit Edition. People brought the latest and greatest only to find out that none of their hardware would work (including some Microsoft branded stuff). They then found out shortly afterwards that the next Windows will also be 64-bit and WILL support all their hardware.