I hope this will be downfall of the MS empire. I'm sure some vendors will manufacture x86/am64 boards without this {bleep} for linux/BSD users. The size of the linux market and the decreased cost of the hardware will make for it. And I'm sure some clever guy from a scandinavian country will manage to break vista to run on these non content protected boards. And everyone will happily use their cracked vistas/free linuxes on these boards free of evil.
/nostradamus over.