So yeah, like, it used to be a counterfeit XP Pro tower which I licensed back in late 2006 with the "Windows Genuine Advantage Kit for Windows XP Professional". Microsoft mailed me the the CD and I used i t do a Windows reinstall, and the disc's been sitting in its mailer next to my PC for the past eighteen months. Until the day before yesterday. Malware took out my operating system, sending it into endless reboot. (the OS is ruined but the drive is still readable and I'll be needing to recover iTunes and plenty of documents from it).

Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft - From your machine! - Softpedia

By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor (condensed version)

Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.

XP PRO is sending me around the bend for 2 weeks every day and everynight I1ve hit resolve now so I can prove my copy is the real deal just when I think It`s solved another reason pops up saying this may not be installed everything is to do with active X.

I've just read on Digg that Channel4 are going to be offering a content download service. Great eh? Only problem is it's for Windows users only. Hmmm, maybe not so great.

Show your support for this issue at http://slated.org/ch4_microsoft_bias_vote.

So, in that great Slated tradition, I put metaphorical pen to paper, and sent yet another "letter" of complaint ... as follows: