This is incorrect: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp#link1 Presently in the UK, you do not need a TV license unless you "watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV". It doesn't matter what equipment you own - it matters what you do with it. It is admittedly, a completely absurd and almost unenforceable situation.

Microsoft are smart enough to realise that mindshare is the key factor which will determine their chances of survival in future OS markets. The only thing which can possibly come from this is another generation who learn to use computers in the context of the obfuscated Microsoft approach: Removed from the real technology, and inadvertantly locked into Windows' GUI conventions and file formats. What a gutless capitulation by the OLPC project.