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Old 15-10-06, 02:56 PM
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Microsoft take Windows EULA to a new level* with Vista
* of stupidity.

Yep, Microsoft are taking the **** this time, they're saying that you can only upgrade your motherboard once, without needing to buy a new license. While this is currently true for XP Oem, they're stupidly extending this policy to retail Vista as well, which is going to do nothing but increase piracy, when you consider vista license prices.

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Vista Ultimate License from MS (See section 15)

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Old 15-10-06, 03:12 PM
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yeah heard about this and showed a few people, was gonna post it on the frontpage.

seems stupid for people like us who are constantly upgrading.
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Old 15-10-06, 03:21 PM
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All u`r mobos r belong 2 m$.

Lookout for the 3rd party upgraders.
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Old 15-10-06, 03:56 PM
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If that turns out to be the case then I for one will off down to my local car-boot sale.

Why does such an obscenely wealthy company have to treat its loyal followers with such contempt ?

Sorry - did I say "Loyal followers"? - I meant the entire Windows using world.
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Old 15-10-06, 05:32 PM
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Why does such an obscenely wealthy company have to treat its loyal followers with such contempt ?
How you think they got so wealthy!!! :P This does truly suck, does anyone know if its on each retail version? They might miss it from the ultimate edition?
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Old 15-10-06, 06:04 PM
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I hope they don't do this, that would suck.
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Old 15-10-06, 06:13 PM
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wtf are they playing at? this is a very clever fools tactic tho...get rich or lose to piracy trying
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Old 15-10-06, 07:08 PM
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Heard about this yesterday but didn't want to be the one to bring you the bad news. Which it definitely is.

Having been through three flaky motherboards in the last year I am not happy with this

The only good thing about Vista is that when your activation fails, unlike XP, it looks like you will at least be able to log in and retrieve your data.
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Old 15-10-06, 07:24 PM
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I still don't see why I should give up XP for Vista.

I think it's time to try AmigaOS again. Use the graphics coprocessor to draw the Windows? How 1985.
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Old 15-10-06, 07:27 PM
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and what a great year 1985 was!
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