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Story: Microsoft's XP: Hardware changes a turnoff

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I have bought 2 copies of xp upgrades and gave them away to people who did not mind calling Microsoft for permission to do anything to their computers .
I refuse to use XP , I even will be returning the new Norton antivirus 2004 to the store because of product activation . I own 3 computers and I am not about to buy 3 of the same program .
My computer is upgraded atleast once a year and I copy the entire C drive to another hard drive for a backup . If I was to use XP or Norton , I would have to spend days on the phone to get their crappy programs activated , not to mention , Symantec doesn't even have a free phone number to call , you are charged to call them by the minute or per incident and we all know how that goes , by the time someone answers your call (if you even get a live person ), you might as well run to the store and buy another program faster .I don't believe it's a piracy problem that they worry about , it's called being GREEDY and trying to sell as much as they can .The prices aren't dropping any time soon , they are still outragously priced for the every day person and the software companies know that there aren't too may housholds with only one computer anymore .

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