Windows Vista High Cost+kill switch= ????????

High Cost

The software maker set the retail price for Vista at between $100 and $259 for users upgrading from older versions of Windows.the price of vista more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers

Anti-piracy at installation

As with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Longhorn Server will both feature newly revamped versions of what we've come to know as Windows Product Activation (WPA). After installation, users will have 30 days to "activate" Windows, by which Microsoft means that users will have to provide a product key to fully unlock the OS. If a user fails to supply a valid key in that timeframe, Windows Vista will respond with a new set of options:
1)Reduced Functionality Mode: this allows minimal use of the OS until it is validated. Microsoft has not disclosed full technical details, but they have indicated that the web browser (presumably IE) will work for about an hour before interrupting the session and forcing you to log off. Additional limitations are described below.
2)Buy a key online: hop online, buy a new key, and you're done.
Phone in for activation: instructions on how to activate over the phone rather than the Internet.
3)Enter your key: Oops, it was under the coffee table book the whole time.


So now what u do????

[hemant_mathur]

Just buy original and enter key or dont use vista ... xp is still good.
BTW put the source from where u got this.

[mehulved]

Another thread on the same topic by same person in the same section exists.