Microsoft should be careful what it wishes for.
The reason I recommend MS solutions to my customers is that I’ve been troubleshooting/using windows forever. Had I not been able to get access to a copy of windows (there aren’t many teens who will fork 150$ over for something like an ‘operating system’), then I would, more than likely, have grown up using *nix.
I don’t mean this as some lame ‘I’ll just go to Linux!’ threat; I mean it to say that this crackdown will force all of us to do something that I don’t believe microsoft wants us to do: consider whether Windows (and all MS solutions for that matter) is really worth the $.