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Personal vision on the End User License Agreement for Microsoft Software

In the End User License Agreement I found the following phrase:

 These Microsoft operating system components, including any "online" or
 electronic documentation ("OS Components") are subject to the terms and
 conditions of the agreement under which you have licensed the
 applicable Microsoft operating system product ("OS Product") described
 below (each an "End User License Agreement" or "EULA") and the terms
 and conditions of this Supplemental EULA.

Well, I'm running a Linux flavour and on top of that I run sometimes Internet Exporer using Wine. I haven't agreed to any terms and conditions coming along with 'an applicable Microsoft operating system product', because I'm not running any Microsoft operating system product. Doesn't the Supplemental EULA is apply to me?
Reading a little further, I found the following:

 NOTE:  IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY "OS PRODUCT" (INCLUDING,
 WITHOUT LIMITATION, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT 4.0,
 MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, MICROSOFT MILLENNIUM EDITION, MICROSOFT WINDOWS
 XP, OR ANY OTHER MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS A SUCCESSOR TO ANY
 OF THE FOREGOING OPERATING SYSTEMS) YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL,
 COPY, OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER
 THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.

Appearantly, if you're not running Microsoft Windows, you do not have a proper EULA to accept this Supplemental EULA. And if you're not accepting the Supplemental EULA, it is illegal to run the product the Supplemental EULA is applied on. Or does it really only apply to the 'OS components'. But what is the OS? Only the kernel? Or also the Windows components which are running on it? Well probably this is defined in the OS Product EULA ... which I can't accept nor read.

In other words: Linux users are probably participating in illegal activities by using Wine to run Microsoft applications. I wonder if Macintosh owners using Internet Explorer have agreed to the same or a different EULA ...

Mysteriously enough it continues:

 Capitalized terms used in this Supplemental EULA and not otherwise
 defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
 applicable OS Product EULA.

Well, the previous section was capitalized. Do I have to read the applicable OS Product EULA to understand what it means? Because I didn't read anywhere in the EULA another 'definition' of the 'capitalized terms'.

A bit further there is the 'DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES'. To simplify things a bit, if your computer gets infected with a worm or a virus, which in 99% percent of all cases is made possible by a flaw in the Windows operating system or one its components (read: Internet Explorer), Microsoft can't be blamed. This is ofcourse license crap, but it basically tells you to shut up and stop complaining about how crappy Internet Explorer is. You did read the license didn't you, you did accept the terms - well, these are the terms: Microsoft sells the product but is not legally responsible for the leaks of the product. It's not even legally responsible for fixing leaks. Marketing-wise ofcourse they would try to fix problems in some amount of time ofcourse.