Doesn't mean everyone can. :\

Illegal copies? I have not heard of Microsoft suddenly selling it for less.

Illegal copies of operation systems are not that good o.O Its the only thing you should actually buy lol :P

Now now, with Microsoft's new powerful super-duper anti piracy detection thats not possible ;) Isn't it?

OEM :p

We shouldn't really be discussing this but let's just say it's not bad.

ANYWAYS YA VISTA GRAAL SUX ON IT WHO CAREZ ABUT VISTA NYWAYZ RITE????

89 Euro here (since you can buy OEM version without hardware in Germany the price is easy to detect :D ) I have heard in the US it is a few percent less, but I wouldn't consider it cheap.

I'm getting all four versions of Vista (and some other software) legally for free but I probably still won't install any of them.

Dibbs

Correction, I heard theres already a file someones made that redirects the detection system elsewhere and auto-FUs the Anti Piracy system. :3

but overall, **** Vista, XP FTW comrades. =p

XP was awful. I would prefer Windows 2000 over XP anyday.

Missed the [/sarcasm]'s :X

Don't put words in my mouth, NO, they are legal copies. Even the price of Vista has dropped in my state.

Why? I was on Windows 2000 for ages and just couldn't stand not having some of the XP features like the way folders are shown and such.

Windows 2000 was much more stable, the interface felt much more sharper and responsive, I prefer the way things were set out and I found it much easier to set up and use.

I don't recall there being any folder views that weren't in Windows 2000. There were even icon previews. The only thing that I liked about XP was the image preview window which was light and fast, but there's an equivalent program with Microsoft Office 2003 which solved that problem, too.