Microsoft Windows Vista EULA is EVIL

Microsoft, true to their nature of being one of the most evil companies in the world, has once again reached new heights of user, consumer and business abuse in the form of the new Vista EULA.

Security Columnist Mark D. Rasch, J.D. is a former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit. He explains the legal problems with the new Microsoft Windows Vista End User License Agreement (EULA). I found particularly funny (or awful, depending on how you look at it) that the EULA is illegal in the state of Maryland, questionable in Virginia and completely unenforceable in Washington state courts (which is ironically where people suing MS about the EULA would be tried). This is because Virginia and Maryland have enacted versions of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). I wish Indiana would protect its citizens from evil company's evil plans. Oh, well. I guess I just won't buy Vista... oh wait, I was never going to in the first place.

Read about MS EULA legal problems here.

Don't buy Vista without knowing what you are getting yourself into. (Do you like jumping into bubbly vats of super-heated oil made out of decomposing puppies? Because that's what buying vista is like.)

There is a better alternative:

Computer World writer and Windows expert, Scott Finnie, jumps ship to MacOS X, permanently, for home and business use.

Read about his reasons for switching to Macs here.