The whole "OS locked to a valid computer" and "locking apps to a registered CPU" thing MAY sound great, if your one of the computer law and order types.
But how many of you have actually worked on computers where this is done???
Basically this is how many high end UNIX workstations already works. And is SUCKS !!
At my job, we have a Silicon Graphics workstation (SGI), an Octane. And I don't give a crap about copying illegal programs or such things. I just want it (ie software that we validly own) to work when they're suppose too. I can't even begin to describe how many times our "licenses" all of a sudden dont' work, and we have to spend hours and hours on the phone trying to get new ones. And of course nobody can explain why all of a sudden they fail.
Oh, and its no suprise that we have to pay thousands of dollars each year for "support" contracts so that they can give me new licenses when the old ones fail.
Its no suprise that individuals and corporations are moving away from extremely overpriced high end workstations, to much simpler and easier to operate linux based PC clusters.
So now they want to do this to PC's as well? em