jesse
Touchdown! Greaser!
I was planning on buying Windows Vista when it was released. I thought it would save me some trouble if I just bought a legit version and didn't have to worry about the pirated versions breaking over the years.
Well. Take a look at this:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/12/2240214.shtml
There is *NO* way I am going to buy Windows Vista if I only can use it on two computers over the life of the license. I'm not asking to run it on 40 computers at once. But if I install it on my current computer and decide in six months that I want to upgrade. I stick a different motherboard, maybe a new graphics card in it. Microsoft considers this a new system. Six months later I decide that I need a new graphics card, maybe a faster CPU. Stick this in and this is now a *new system*. Now I can never upgrade my computer again unless I buy another copy of Windows? They already own the market. They are not going broke. They have plenty of competiors stepping up. So what do they do? Come out with some rediculious license to **** everyone off. Smart.
Well. Take a look at this:
"TechWeb has posted an article regarding Vista's new license and how it allows you to only move it to another device once. How will this work for people who build their PCs? I have no intention of purchasing a new license every time I swap out motherboards. 'The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the "licensed device," reads the license for Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Business. In other words, once a retail copy of Vista is installed on a PC, it can be moved to another system only once. ... Elsewhere in the license, Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtual machine. "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.'"
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/12/2240214.shtml
There is *NO* way I am going to buy Windows Vista if I only can use it on two computers over the life of the license. I'm not asking to run it on 40 computers at once. But if I install it on my current computer and decide in six months that I want to upgrade. I stick a different motherboard, maybe a new graphics card in it. Microsoft considers this a new system. Six months later I decide that I need a new graphics card, maybe a faster CPU. Stick this in and this is now a *new system*. Now I can never upgrade my computer again unless I buy another copy of Windows? They already own the market. They are not going broke. They have plenty of competiors stepping up. So what do they do? Come out with some rediculious license to **** everyone off. Smart.
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