Windows Vista has new Reduced Functionality Mode
Windows Vista will ship with anti-piracy technology that will lock down the OS if it has not been activated within 30 days of first use, Microsoft announced today. If the OS is not activated, Windows will switch to a reduced functionality mode that will cripple the OS. This is but one of many planned features of Microsoft's new Software Protection Platform (SPP), shared by both Windows Vista and the forthcoming Longhorn Server, due sometime late next year (at the earliest)........
The whole News at:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061004-7898.html They will be locking browser, mail and most of the functions one after other slowely.
I hope that there will come cracks to unlock them as it always has. I am not gonna pay a single penny for the software. I never paid for it in my life, then why the hell should I suddenly start paying now.