I have also heard something about Vista having to phone home occasionally to be authenticated or it shuts itself down

Yup. You HAVE to be able to contect to the internet to authenticate, and yes it keeps having its serial number checked on a regular basis. (via internet)

I don't have a problem with that other than, I am all about shutting everything down I don't need, to have as much computer possible for cgi.

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