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Microsoft's Velvet Glove
Mark Burnett, 2005-01-31

Redmond's plan to make you install Windows authentication software before downloading vital security patches is a reasonable and gentle effort to limit piracy.

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Microsoft's Velvet Glove 2005-02-01
Todd Knarr
My major problems with this don't involve piracy at all. They're philosophical and practical.

First, I paid a fairly large sum of money for Windows XP. I've got the store receipt showing I paid for it fair and square. Then I had to go through product activation before I could actually install wha...

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