With more time passing, it looks like everything is not so bright after all. Windows 7 has now started to lose his shiny title of the OS we have been dreaming about since the beginning.

In an attempt to protect the rights of the music authors, Microsoft has degraded the functionality of your sound card through his software in order to prevent you from recording any quality music. This however makes your hardware useless and directly questions you, why bother buying something that you can’t even use? Furthermore, the software denies you access to your own files, and renders them inaccessible and completely useless. And it doesn’t stop here. From now on you’re not allowed to interfere and change your installed programs any more. If you attempt to change a file that is essential for the operation of a certain program, you’re instantly sealed off from that section and unable to access your Local Settings folder anymore. You can’t even move those files and examine them somewhere else, no matter what privileges you have on that computer.

What they’re trying to achieve through such limitations bears a positive message, because they’re trying to fight piracy. However, in my opinion they’ve started at the wrong place. Limiting access to something you own is not the answer, instead they should take more care in the way they redistribute paid software and find other means to prevent people to copy it without permission. After all, who doesn’t want to have full control of something he or she paid for? With such actions I’m more and more of the impression that even after I paid the price, I’m still not the one who owns that software. And that’s not right! I’m not prepared to simply watch how my computer restricts me from my own property!