WindowsXP licence

Ever wondered what that WindowsXP Home licence really means? Well, here is a translation into normal English. If you’re a WindowsXP user, go and read – you might be rather surprised by how little MS promises, and how much you give away (like the right to lend your computer to a friend or the right for MS to install any software they like on your PC without notice, or to remove any function they like from your PC without notice or recompense).

If you want a choice, consider Linux – it’s powerful and yet cheap (even free if you download it), without restrictions (you actually control your own PC rather than signing it away to a corporation) and extremely easy to install and use (contrary to what you might have heard from certain sources). You can even install it alongside Windows on your PC – no need for a hard break. And you can run Windows applications on it as well; for example, I spend all day working on my Linux PC using MS Word (although there are excellent alternatives, my particular job requires MS Word).