> If you do things the Microsoft way and happen to live near good bandwidth. > Like making it progressively more difficult to just use local accounts. right.

> If you do things the Microsoft way and happen to live near good bandwidth. > Like making it progressively more difficult to just use local accounts. right. because they don't care about your hardware just your payment relationship with them. > cloning a machine from hardware a decade old onto a brand new laptop may require expertise you don't see the connection between all these facts? "coping all the work and effort you've collected on your personal machine for a decade _still_ unaccountably requires expertise." If this were something so unusual that people would rarely want to do it this would be a reasonable point. The fact that this is such an obvious thing people want to do without having to have a monthly subscription first indicates that the product does not cater well to it's selected market segments.