The scariest thing about this is it's all true & it's not just Microsoft that's in on it. Intel are in the process of making a brand new chip codenamed "Fritz" which is going to be tied in with the next version of Windows. This will have the ability of stopping anything "unauthorised" from being run on your machine & the worst part is that only Microsoft can authorise software to be run. The next version of the office suite will also be "fixed" so that you can only use documents created on a specific machine on that machine & nowhere else unless you "buy" a special license from Microsoft. Also if you type something that says anything not acceptable to the Government or anyone who is part of this they can delete it off your machine at any time & you have no say in that either. Not only that but when you switch your machine on everyday you have to be connected to the net so that it can check to make sure your license from Microsoft or whoever is uptodate if not then it'll shut down & you won't be able to use anything. Monthly fees will apply for this too. Once this all falls into place in the next few months none of us will have any say over what happens on our own machines again it will be all in the hands of Microsoft & their friends. This is all going under the name of Palladium, the info is all there to find on the net or at least it is today, it might not be once Palladium get's fully underway.