Though I do not agree with pirates, Microsoft in it's so called wonderful innovations, encourages honest people to become one. Example, I recently had Windows problems which caused me to do a restore, which took me back passed when I did the authentication, on trying to redo authentication, I am told that the key is passed it used date, to phone up, what do I get a recording, and as I am hard of hearing I am unable to grasp what is required, so I am left out in the cold with nowhere else to turn. So in a sense I am going to have to become a pirate, because I am not going to upgrade to another windows system. The next move will be Linux