I also had a brand new computer show up as invalid. Definitely not pirated. Called M$, and a rude lady answered and told me I was out of luck. I asked if she was interested in knowing which vendor I had purchased the computer from, she said "that's not my problem". Killer support

I've been downloading and trying out every piece of software I can find, over an 9 year period, I've still never ever had, or found, a copy of software that didn't pass the little windows test for originality. Mind you I never went out looking for any pirated software. And I get all the downloads offline. But with number's like that, I should have been unfortunate enough to find several bad pieces by now? What I can't understand is how it is that no one else is making software to compete with Microsoft. There has to be another person in this age, who could make a better OS. And then become the worlds most popular and rich person by selling it at a lot less than what's available now. Linux sounds like a great idea. But everyone everywhere makes it sound like such a difficult system to use that it's caring away at least 90% of possible users. This 90% number is from the same location as the 22.3% so you know it's gotta be good. There's 3 kinds of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can't. So who's doing the numbers.