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I also found this interesting rant-that-insists-it-isn’t called Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. It’s very long, geeky reading. Along with reasons why MS releases buggy products and how XP invades your privacy, one of the more interesting parts to me is how reliant Windows is becoming on being attached to the web, or more specifically to the servers at MS.

Take that requirement, along with the current EULAs (End User License Agreement. For a lot of the software you get, you don’t buy it — you license it. You don’t have the right to resell it or give it to anyone else. And although you paid for it, the company you bought it from can revoke your license so that you can no longer use it.), and we’re another step closer to renting software that will have an expiration date.