Feel a little sympathy for MS but....

MS are damned if they do damned if they don't!

If you knock off Windows and you get "caught" you are denied updates necessary to project the install, that natty little box in the corner and nice WWII blackout curtain backdrop. MS have every right to protect their product from unauthorised use, well MS I'm afraid this is the payback!

Don't give me all that cack about "Well Windows is so widely used it is obviously going to get attacked!". Let give you a one word argument to that old cods, APACHE.

Apache runs 70%+ of the worlds web servers and it manages to stay ahead of the game and not get infected, while IIS lags behind and is always under attack.

MS write shonky code and release half-backed software, deal with it!

( Just slip into my flame-proof suit here! )