Microsoft's goals in copy protection are not to prevent piracy, only to hurt legal, paying customers. All their protection schemes up to now have only served to cause problems for their paying customers. At the same time, pirates have dissabled this crap easily, and they don't even have to enter a product key. It seems that they are repeating this again...as pirates will copy the cabs elsewhere before using them, while paying customers will just install them...deleting the installer without permission from or notification to the user.

I had read something awhile back where Microsfot stated that unlike Apple, they'd automatically delete apps from people's WM phones for whatever reason without consent or warning. It just didn't tell how this would be done. Thanks for posting this article. I'll be sure to take whatever measures are available to keep this from happening to me if and when I get a WM mobile phone. Why Microsoft would make public this threat(is what I consider it as anyway)is baffling to me. I mean do they not want the marketplace to be successful at all. Couple this crappy news with the pricing scheme that differs greatly from Apple's in that 99 cent pricing will be greatly discouraged because accroding to Microsoft, it gratly undervalues their products. No good whatsoever.