This week, Microsoft began requiring customers to validate their copies of Windows in order to use their Windows Update service. Crackers responded by circumventing the check and within days. 
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There is also another reason I can think of: you bought your computer in the country where you lived. Then you moved to another country where they speak a different language and you want to sell your computer: How do you solve this problem?
(unless of course you sell it to somebody who wants to use an open source OS)