Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" (for snoops that is)

[Alan <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Computerworld on Microsoft's scratch-cards activation idea:

http://tinyurl.com/3d2zua

Their abomination of Microsoft Genuine Advantage has been trying to get 
itself on my older XP machine, and I just close the window, but I'm 
concerned that one day one of the younger set in the household will 
download it.

I know that not one piece of their software on there is pirated.

The article says that "Windows Vista 
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+Vista> 
owners, for example, can be forced by Microsoft to reactivate an 
already-activated PC, while Windows XP users *can't permanently disable 
WGA's 
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012762>* 
anticounterfeit notifications."

That clinched the decision on my next PC, which will be a Mac. Unless by 
some miracle Linux appears.

--Alan