Quoting Gravite2090

All Windows users should revert back to Win2k

Some of them have, but not me. (At least not yet. )

Quoting RWB

...I am with Prime and Jared though, I think I recall it going down like this before XP's release and they dumbed it down. I am beginning to wonder if they do this on purpose so that when most of this doesn't happen, the things that do happen look less hideous...

That makes a whole lot of sense to me. After reading the first post in this thread, practically anything they do which is not quite so draconian will look reasonable by comparison.

I will say this, though. While I have always bought a legitimate copy of Windows and have denounced piracy, if they do actually try a stunt like this I may just have to start rooting for the pirates. (And I don't mean the ones in Pittsburgh.) They would be handing a ready-made excuse to everyone in the world wanting a free ride, who could just claim that they are justified on the grounds that they upgrade their system frequently.