I find the argument that piracy is bad for Microsoft be so far from the truth. Are you kidding me? They practically owe their market share to the fact that the

I find the argument that piracy is bad for Microsoft be so far from the truth. Are you kidding me? They practically owe their market share to the fact that the choice isn't "learn linux" or "pay for windows" it's "learn linux" or "get windows somehow". People would never buy vista for $400, but if their friend "fixes" their computer and all of a sudden it looks different, great! I learned to program in windows because that's what was there. That's what my games (that I pirated when I was 13) ran on. They are ubiquitous because of piracy. I would love it if they could magically make windows "unpiratable". There is no way they would do it.