Pressure Forces Microsoft to Change Vista Licensing

[PV5150]

In what can only be described as the most 'sensible and user friendly' turnarounds in the history of Windows; Microsoft has done a backflip over its reinstall limit on Vista. Relenting to pressure over their harsh 'one install over the original pc' limit; Bill and his cohorts at Redmond have come to an amicable agreement whereby users can reinstall the OS as many times as they like. Nice one Bill...Care to comment?

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[JN]

That is GREAT news. A very wise step by MS.

 

[Nagaru]

Wow good to see that microsoft listen to users at all.

 

[JN]

How are they going to stop you installing it on multiple machines tho..

EDIT: have seen that it is "worded" into the license. That'll stop ppl

 

[PV5150]

ROFL yeah, I had a chuckle too when I saw that

 

[JN]

ROFL yeah, I had a chuckle too when I saw that

"Do not make illegal copies of this disk (or loan it to your mates)"

 

[Ham]

Good, the 1 install idea was so stupid.

And is it legal to use the same disk but a different licence key?

 

[PV5150]

"Do not make illegal copies of this disk (or loan it to your mates)"

hehe, I can picture it now "but I was following the EULA, honest"

 

[JN]

And is it legal to use the same disk but a different licence key?

AFAIK yes thats fine (otherwise i'm in mass trouble @ work) .

 

[Dav0s]

like xms and pv, i read this and thought, what stops me from usiang somebody elses product key?

so really the answer is nothing?

 

[JN]

like xms and pv, i read this and thought, what stops me from usiang somebody elses product key?

so really the answer is nothing?

Correct. Back to the old pre-xp days. Whack in ur key and away you go (or at least thats how i understood it)

 

[FarFarAway]

I bet there will still be some sort of validation

 

[JN]

I bet there will still be some sort of validation

Do you own this copy of windows?

<<Yes>> <<No>>

 

[FarFarAway]

Do you own this copy of windows?

<<Yes>> <<No>>

LOL!

It'll be online validation afaik. How effective it is I have no idea

 

[Dav0s]

if its online validation, is that not just activation? whats the difference?

there may be soemthing similar to the current genuine advantage thing?

 

[FragTek]

omfg, this is awesome... thank you microsoft for not taking the

on this one!

 

[Rastalovich]

There`s gotta be more to this. It is very very un-m$-like.

Something`s afoot.