[LINK] Chinese surfers see red over Microsoft black-outs

[andrew clarke]

On Fri 2008-10-24 06:46:58 UTC+1000, Jan Whitaker (jwhit at melbpc.org.au) wrote:

> >What WGA actually does is to remove any background image you have on the
> >desktop, and instead gives you a plain black background.  The computer and
> >all programs still work exactly as you'd expect (the exception being Windows
> >Update and the like)
> 
> If that's the case, a plain background, they should care why?

Call me boring, but I prefer a plain black background!  And the fewer
icons on the desktop, the better.  Much less distracting :-)