This is phase 2. Phase 1 was withholding certain things, such as downloads. But that wasn't going to make sure that people get legal, so they went on to the next phase. Now Microsoft's going to remind them at boot, when the system wakes from sleep, that there's something funky about their Windows.

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We're going to go ahead and close the cafeteria ... until we're sure that there's nothing that's a problem for the kids and the people who serve them.

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We know it's a big inconvenience. But our overriding concern is safety. We could not be sure what would be out there. We wanted to err on the side of abundant caution.

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Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively.

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With some applications you notice the emulation more than others. The applications may not be as responsive when you first open them. For the person that bought the Intel-based Mac and is looking for that performance increase, the bigger bang will come from the native code.

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It looks like Microsoft missed the major upgrade cycle from 2004 to early this year. Windows Vista would have been a much better story in 2005 than in 2006, or, realistically, 2007.

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