Lets hope the anti-piracy features are very successful for 2 reasons:

1) it is believed that the biggest competitor to Microsoft is not Linux or Mac OS but pirated copies of Windows. Perhaps these pirates will be locked out and the amount of spam and DOS attacks are reduced by eliminating the unpatched Windows zombie computers.

2) the world will realize free software has no pirates and maybe the internet will be a little more heterogeneous and not 95% Windows.

yes ... floppies! maintainable, but a bit of work as floppies go bad every once in a while. easy to build, the drives are relatively inexpensive. you can pick them up cheap. you may need a bit of room, especially with a raid setup. it requires a bit of space for 500 gb or larger. the cacophony of my 500 gb drive definitely lets me know my investment is working for me. the grinding drives settle into the background sooner than you think! its the ultimate back up solution for my workstation!