content: There's criminal law, and civil law, under which something can be "illegal".  What Microsoft is doing may be illegal under civil law, but the government does not raise civil lawsuits against corporations.  It's up to citizens to start a class action lawsuit or something, in indeed there is merit to the case.  I'm not a lawyer so I don't know, but I do agree with you that it should be illegal, but terms of service/EULA stuff gives corporations with teams of lawyers the ability to erode your rights in ways you can't comprehend when you click the "ok" button. In China, they are starting a class-action lawsuit under the basis that closing a window with the red X in it, cannot constitute agreement.