New PlayStation Store not region locked

After receiving the official announcement regarding the PlayStation Store's impending redesign, one of the first questions asked was "will we still be able to access the PlayStation Store for other regions besides our own".

Our friendly SCEA rep "confirmed that no changes to the store will be made as part of this revamp relating to region locking". So like before, those users with multiple master accounts corresponding to different regions will indeed not be locked out of those PlayStation Stores.

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2008/4/2-4

Um, what? Not-Region-Locked, I take as meaning anyone can access the PSN store from whatever region and see everything it offers world-wide...

So basically this article confirms that we are indeed region locked? Because sure, we can log in to the Japan store with a falsified Japanese account, but we cannot buy anything...

That's good?

So when are they going to support operating systems other than XP and Vista for the PlayStation Network Downloader like maybe win2k or linux.