Ok, just for my opinion micro pushed to far this time.
The idea wasn't new, as for example all HP laptops have hidden partition and dog knows what's in there This attempt to stop pirated software flood is useless again, since certain utilities allow you to bypass the restriction ( wasn't that cracks.am ).

I just think of typical user that goes to store, purchases legal CD and installes the OS. And when sth goes wrong with HW he has additional headake with XP. (Then his friend tells him to go to cracks.am, but that's a different story ... )

Cheers
Chef

consider this case closed