I abandoned windows on my home machines because of a Microsoft mouse.
I had bought a new asus netbook. I intended to put linux on it but it came with some sort of student edition of windows. I thought I'd at least see how well ran out of the box. So I plugged in my decade-old and trustworthy MS mouse. "Need to connected to internet to download drive for external mouse" ... windows was then dead to me.
2007? 2008? - It was the student edition on a $150 netbook. I plugged in the mouse shortly after turning it on. Maybe if I had fully booted into windows ... but once I stopped laughing shut it down and installed backtrack.
I had bought a new asus netbook. I intended to put linux on it but it came with some sort of student edition of windows. I thought I'd at least see how well ran out of the box. So I plugged in my decade-old and trustworthy MS mouse. "Need to connected to internet to download drive for external mouse" ... windows was then dead to me.