>To all who contributed to this thread.
>This is the first time that I felt resentment/anger coming so many from this forum towards Microsoft.
>
>People here are usually very pro-Microsoft, well, so I thought.
>
>Very interesting....

Dean,

There have been very similar discussions going on for the past six months in the Office and Windows XP newsgroups.

IMHO, programmer's are somewhat more rebellious and antisocial than the average person, so something like Windows Product Activation rubs the wrong way. That's what you're seeing.