Have fun paying the licence when MSFT figures out how to patent things such as "breathing" and "walking". /sarcasm

Maybe their "losses" wouldn't be so massive if they weren't spending all their money on lawyers?

The function of the "Windows" key is not in question. Most hate (in my case) comes from it's positioning.
I've seen too many laptops with Ctrl and Win keys swapped. Plus, there's usually a "function" key also somewhere in there.

Every little bit (or watt, as the case may be) counts.
We should now 'encourage' the vendors of CPU, HD, screen... to reduce power consumption. The easiest thing to do is say: "Meh, my component uses way less power than everything else". Then you end up with a laptop power adapter that is larger than the laptop itself and allows you to boil water for coffee.

Or perhaps they intend to slowly increase bloat and decrease quality, until mysql becomes basically unusable. At which point, they can say "Oh, I almost forgot, there's this new, *BETTER* RDMS we also make, but it isn't exactly free."

Assuming that the effort put into this law is more than half-assed, I am thinking that there may be a distinction between "data I have put there (into the cloud) to be stored, as in documents, photos, database contents, etc", versus "data that the companies collect, as in webpage visit counters, IP addresses, browser and system stats". I, personally, include web registration data, addresses, phone numbers among the latter. And yes, I would like to have those erased, along with backups if I stop using the web service. As for impersonation, that can wreak some pretty nasty havoc with your life even without such legislation and needs further looking-into. I am grateful at least that I don't have to write laws about it :D