If MS would like to "license" their OS to consumers at a reasonable price,let alone the $3.00 price for China, who would ever bother to pirate their software? Also in the WGA disadvantage arena: it is nice to know updates are available, but quite another thing to have your system tray hound you until you install them. I can't tell tou how many times I had to uninstall updates or reinstall the OS because the updates destabilized the system.