Been reading about this for a few months rather apprehensively...normally I would welcome just about any move by M$ to concentrate on security, but to me this reeks of nothing more than Big Brother and copyright protection. You will always have the herd of cattle that mindlessly accept whatever comes their way, even this odious degree of invasion of privacy, but IMHO, my answer to M$ and any other vendor that thinks this is an acceptible business practice: Secure This!

The day that M$ or intel make this (for example the deal with encryption keys on hardware that could make certain components on my pc stop working) the basis of how they do business is the day I walk over to the freeware community completely and permanently.

At the very least a totally Linux workshop sounds better everyday...

/nebulus