If I wasn't that tired after work - I'd probably impale the lecturer for reading the whole of EULA aloud!
The rest was extremely informative... Right...
The only moment when most of the class bothered to take out their notes was when the lecturer was entering the serial number 8-). Doesn't work with regular distributions though...
Due to a contract with Microsoft - any student can order a free copy of WIN XP Pro though. I'll have to bother with downloading 700 megs and registration on the other hand so nah :-P