I understand Microsoft's desire to protect themselves from having their product become part of the warez community. No one likes to see their work stolen. It's a shame that such radical measures need to be taken.

Bearing that in mind, I wonder if we dare hope for a reduction in product pricing. Many users have complained of high software costs for years. The typical vendor response is that the price is so high because of piracy. If Microsoft does manage to remove, or at least severely impede, piracy of their software can we hope for a reduction in price?

I know that corporate culture accepts the high price of software as part of the cost of doing business, but it sure hits the home user hard when you start adding the cost of each package up.