Warp wrote:
>   Isn't it a bit ironic that each new version of Windows adds more things
> the user can *not* do, instead of the opposite?

Kind of sucks when the customer isn't always the user, doesn't it? :-)

>   In theory it could be possible to tie hardware with a specific OS.

We have that. They're called cell phones. Or microwave ovens. Or iPhones.


Invisible wrote:
 > How about if you design hardware so that it will only run "authorised"
 > software

Yeah. This is the iPhone, and Apple is slowly moving the rest of their 
OS that direction.

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