So Microsuck will give all of you Windows Genuine Disadvantage Plug-ins.
So your Windows will be like this...

Click here for more details about WGA.

This is the most current release of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications. We encourage you to upgrade to this version. This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers, as well as Microsoft’s continually improving anti-piracytechnology.

Specific features of this version include:

• Improved Setup – An updated installation wizard for this package provides a new end-user license agreement and shows validation results immediately at the end of the installation process. No reboot is required following installation, and future updates to WGA Notifications will be received automatically.

• Persistent desktop notification - This is an image that will appear over the system tray if your copy of Windows is not genuine. You can interact with icons underneath this image, but you will not be able to interact with the image itself or hide it from view. The persistent notification on will continue to display until your copy of Windows is genuine.

 

• Black desktop background – After installing this release of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications on a copy of Windows XP that fails validation, the desktop will be changed at the next log on to a plain black background. You will be able to reset this to any wallpaper or other background color, but every 60 minutes the desktop will be reset to black until your copy of Windows is genuine. This plain black background emphasizes the new persistent desktop notification.

Okay, let's talk about the solution. Of course you could go on using Windows, with the boring WGA Plug in. You hate it? So do I. So I use OpenSource Operation System. So could you use that. In fact using OSS is not too difficult. As far as I'm concerned, resons to use Windows is its Graphical User Interface (aka GUI) istead of Command-Line Interface in DOS. It's a truth that in the last few decades, computers are only used by h4x0rs and the most-widly used OS is SunOS (which renamed to Solaris later and now became OpenSource) and DOS (which has a lot of users and is efficent, user-friendly and light-weighted which allows old computer systems with only 256 kilobytes of memory work well with DOSKey or other TSR's enabled). But, to ordianry users, UNIX or DOS are not so easy to use. Most of them wanna use GUI with a mouse which seems to be more efficent (and sometimes it's true). So came Xerorx. Xerox did the pioneering efforts of in researching and developing the concept of visual or graphical user interfaces for the computer industry. The first GUI-centric computer operating model was the Xerox 8010 Star Information System in 1981. Then Apple Inc, an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. They did develop Apple Lisa which used GUI. Users thought GUI's good, so users bought Apple. Then came Microsuck and it developed Windows 1.0. In fact we could call Windows 1.0 "Windows Pre-Alpha 0.0.0.1". Always crash made Windows famous. Apple saw that the use of GUI in Windows, so Apple sued Microsuck and ended with Apple's appeal denied.

At the same time, X.Org Foundation funded. The X Window System is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. It could run on almost everywhere - from UNIX Mainframes to Mobile Phones, from BSD to Windows, from Sun SPARC to Intel StrongARM. We have got a lot of WindowManagers (aka wm), including famous K Desktop Environment and GNU Network Object Model Environment(aka GNOME). They are user-friendly in fact, here is a screen shot of KDE.

Seems to be good? Yeah, you could have a try by using KUbuntu. You could use LiveCDs.

Usually, we do not use Command Line Interface under OpenSource Operating Systems except FreeDOS which gives you a command prompt by default.


Huh, above is a screenshot of FreeDOS's FDEDIT, a program for us to edit plain-text files just like EDIT in MS-DOS or E in PC-DOS. Of course FreeDOS is just for geeks.

Why should we use OpenSource Oprating Systems?
We are talking about freedom. That is what we should have but acturally when using Close-Sourced OS's, we donot have. Free was like that of Free-Speech, not in free beer. Of course we love free beer, but free speech is prefered compared to free beer. WE LOVE FREEDOM, SO WE USE OPENSOURCE.

LIVE FREE OR DIE, A SLOGAN OF UNIX(R).
We ought to use computers freely, we ought to have the right to modify anything in our computer, but the EULA said NO to us. We cannot modify system configurations, we cannot edit system files, we cannot ... But, what could we do? It's OUR computer.
As far as I'm concerned, most of you are using pirate windows distros. So you may find one day you computer said "Sorry, but you are using pirate Windows. Please enter your new CD-Key or your files will have been deleted.". It sucks. If you use OpenSource Software, this would not happen.
At last, someone will ask questions like this.
The following questions and answers are just for China Mainland.
Q How could I use online payment?
A Please refer to Bill Xu's appeal.
Q How could I surf the net?
A Configure the IP address (call me if you do not know how to archive that), and click on the Firefox icon.
Q How do I listen to music?
A Using RealPlayer might be a good solution.
Q How could I open M$Office Documents?
A OpenOffice.org 3.0 have been just released. If you are in Qingdao University, you can download OpenOffice.org 3.0 W32Version WithJRE here.
Q How could I run Windows programs?
A Use wine.
Q How could I ignore the Great Firewall of China?
A Use Dynamic IP, or TOR Prohect(The Onion Router, I'm working on it's Chinese translation), or VPN(Virtual Private Network).
Q How could I play Windows Games?
A Some of them could be run in wine, such as Red Alert.
Q How could I use terminals?
A Hit Alt-F2, then xterm (this is universal), konsole (in KDE), gnome-terminal (in GNOME), xfce-terminal (in xfce).
Q How could I create a new user?
A useradd command will work.
Q How could I log on my QQ?
A Follow this URL.
Q How could I use MSN?
A Please use Pidgin.
Q How could I ...
A

At last, Googling will give you a good answer.