Being a Systems Administrator (in the past and in the present), Shelly, I see no reason why the hell MS or any other company has to invade my networks and start running crap I don't authorize because they are insecure in their product use.

These companies just assume its ok to do what ever the hell they want on my networks. Not gonna happen here.

WGA does do a specific function and it is voluntary. However, it was not initially released to constantly spam my networks with their information. In essense they are using their "protective" measures to effectively eat up my bandwidth. Yes its tiny, hell its barely on the scope. However, 1+1+1+1+1+1+...Etc... It counts and it starts to load things down. Its not just going to be MS doing it, once they see that MS can get away with it. Its a precedent and it needs to be stopped.

So now that we're no longer in the state of network neutrality, I should be charging every product cost for using my networks and its infrastruture to get its information to and from on my systems... Hell, I paid for it, not them. So why should I give them unlimited rights again??