[Fyron]

You seem to have glossed over the assertion that the segment of the computer using population that installs OSes on their own is very much intersected by the segment of the population that can download and use a crack for WPA, in the extremely unrealistic event that MS decides to stop allowing activations for it prematurely. Noone will be forced to upgrade to Vista in this manner.

Now this is hyperbole taken to an extreme.

The only hyperbole is your entire premise. I don't feel like repeating myself again; I just hope noone else is fooled by these tired anti-MS arguments with no basis in reality.