[citation][nom]wild9[/nom]Oh, cool..we're talking about tomorrow's technology - how about talking about tomorrow's ethics. Yep, 'cool' does start at home..good parenting..not letting corporations walk all over your kids by blinding them with solutions born of transistors and silicon, rather than the common good in all of us.[/citation]
Binding? How?
You can buy a PC made by one of a hundred differant vendors or build it yourself from millions of combinations of componants and pop Windows on it, or, if you are so inclined you can put Linux on it, or if you are really commited you can hax it and put Apple's OSX on it.
Your implication, because that's what it was, is that you buy a PC and are slaved to Microsoft as some sort of evil oppressor.
Pop quiz
What company forces you to use hardware sold only by itself, for a serious premium, whilst enforcing the pre-installation of its own OS on every one, with an enforced pre-install of its own web browser and at the same time vigorously litigates against everyone who dares to show people how to run their OS on home-built machines?
3 guesses and the first 2 don't count...