EDIT: Written after reading article associated with
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/2036220&from=rss. Don't know if everyone here reads that or not, hence the post.
I've been angry about this for some time, but never thought Microsoft might be behind it as much as I do now.
If you've had the experience of buying a computer (at least here in the United States), you probably found out that the company you bought it from either didn't bother giving you a windows installation/restoration CD, or they gave you something in the equivalent of Norton Ghost, which I believe is set to write over your MBR, so goodbye other partitions
.
They're sure not making it easy for average users to dual or multi-boot their systems, or at least they're setting traps for them. I don't think the average user is going to know they should probably get a non-destructive partition resizing program (such as the proprietary Partition-Magic tool, don't know of a F/OSS equivalent).
I might be stupid for just now realizing this, but it's not in the "Why Microsoft is Evil" section of this site, I don't think.
Forcing companies to provide systems with OSes already installed, and not allowing them to provide you with Windows CDs (which I think you should have a RIGHT to considering how you bought the damn OS with the computer) seems kinda "evil" to me anyways.
Also, I wasn't sure where to put this, so I posted it in the lounge. Thought about the *nix section, but wondered about one of the MS sections too.