Have you expected something more from big monopolies who fight to get your last penny and fill their own pockets with money? Have you expected something from a company that doesn't listen to its customers or listens them too late? Holy shmoly! If you expect everything I said, then maybe its time to stop believing in stupid promises and stupid and rich people and start doing some real work. Just the proper time to say goodbye to Windows and switch to GNU/Linux, because once you'll install it, you'll never google for software that is already there and free, and you'll have a perfectly stable and free system without AV software that bogs down your PC and without formatting the disc every once in a year or 6 months. Oh, and forgot, no activation
Keep Windows in case you are a gamer, and use it rarely. The more rarely you begin to use Windows, the more you'll learn and love the Linux world and environment.
True. I had a retail OEM copy of XP and formatted the HDD several times and it didn't ask for activation.