Microsoft changes Vista piracy action

In this article, "Microsoft changes Vista piracy action" by Matthew, he describes Microsoft's new way of annoying people who pirate their Vista operating system. Currently, they allow Vista pirates, once detected, to have web access only. That will change once service pack 1 is applied. Users will no longer have services stopped instead they will be annoyed by having pop-ups and a black desktop with some white text stating that it is a pirated copy.

Gee, How is that different from legal users...?..

I don't know why anyone would want to pirate Vista? I have talked to quite a few people who were forced to buy it and are in a lot of pain. Some have even blown away Vista and loaded XP.

Considering all the approaches that Microsoft has taken in the past, to stopping piracy, I think this is the best. After reading the article I was actually laughing with Microsoft instead of at Microsoft.