100% right about this one...
Working at a computer repair shop, you see this EVERYwhere. I can tell you in my early days I even had several of my own computers on the lovely Windows XP Pro SP2 Corporate Edition, perfect for any pirate in training. No activation, no worries about getting updates up untill WGA and it worked like a charm.
What most people don't understand is how many people use these copies. It's not just the geek down the street. To quote ZDnet, "35% of the packaged software installed on personal computers worldwide in 2005 was illegal, amounting to $34 bln in global losses". And I'm sure a big chunk of that was M$ products. The couple complaints from people about WGA is well worth the possible billions they could get from people being forced to get a legal version of Windows.
But knowing M$, they'll probably come up with a great idea to fix this, only half way develop the idea, and end up putting a patch/SP out a couple months later to finish the idea.
