Well, I can't understand why you elected to give us such a long winded and pedantic CPU history lecture, and at the expense of quoting another member's post so you could talk down to him, along with he rest of us.
As for you forking over way too much money for a top end CPU, relax, we all have pasts of which we're sometimes not proud.
But isn't that an ego driven "blunder"? A mistake born out of insecurity, and a need to perceive yourself as the "top dawg of the desktop", in your immediate social group?
As far as "trust" goes between M$ and it's customers, it was actually those customers who struck the first blow. After all, M$ really did need to install the activation paradigm in Windows XP. Otherwise, people would have just continued copying their next door neighbors edition. Humorously, without the activation protocol, Windows as an operating system, might have become a pyramid scheme in reverse gone horribly awry.
So, save for the "tragically hip" literary styling of your post, nothing you've said is anywhere close to being new business. Although doubtless you felt you were on some "bold new frontier of journalism", while you penned it.
While I applaud you your considerable effort, along with your much self ballyhooed arrival here at Techspot, nothing you've said amounts to more than, a repetitive monologue of the painfully obvious.
So, while I'm at it and FWIW, "welcome to Techspot".