VISTA EULA!!!

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:08 pm

Bloody hell, Linux is now looking better and better!

As I read this, you go to the store and buy a copy of Vista, which you install on a PC you had in your office. A year later, another PC becomes available that's a bit more up to date, so you decide to transfer your Vista license to that machine.

You're now finished with that Vista license. Done. Game over, man. Whether you shelled out $199 for Home Basic or broke the bank with the $399 Ultimate makes no difference. You've reassigned the license twice, and that's all that Microsoft allows.

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420/1

Killswitch · Post by **Killswitch** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:37 pm

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Microsoft changed their plans to do this...

(I'm trying to find the article I read about this!)

Edit:

This wasn't the same one, but it's got the same jist:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21679 ... ta-license

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:50 pm

Yes, they changed that.

Progi1984 · Post by **Progi1984** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:08 pm

Personnally, I may buy in 6 or 7 months a laptop... with no windows with no system ! I will install Ubuntu directly !

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:41 pm

That article was written on october 27th, so clearly the writer isn't to up-to-date with the goings-on. Microsoft changed their license for Vista around october 15th. Atleast that's when I got the update for it.
You can now install Vista as you would with Windows XP. But if I remember correctly, you cannot active two copies after a certain ammount of time. So if you install a copy at work, which isn't a good idea anyways, then you can't install it again at your home PC the same day, but you have to wait a certain ammount of time before it can be installed and activated.

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:45 pm

Ah, I hadn't come across the fact that MS has altered the licence.

If they hadn't, Linux would have rocketted!

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:54 pm

(Nov 6, 2006) Editor's note: following publication of this article on Oct 27, Microsoft removed the Vista EULA from their website, modified the terms to address the transfer of licenses, and then recently made the document available again.

Yes, they backed off, but only in response to a massive angry backlash by customers. What we are left with now is fair imho, as you can transfer a license you bought as a boxed product an unlimited number of times. The OS you get with a new PC as OEM software is not transferable, but that's reasonable. As a customer you'll have paid next to nothing for it, as it's funded by all the "free" crap you get preloaded, and Microsoft takes a much lower price as well. The main problem with Vista, and one MS carelessly failed to consider, is that it won't run QuickSnap. How they could overlook this important detail is beyond me.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:56 pm

QuickSnap? What's that?

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:10 pm

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=23856

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:25 pm

netmaestro wrote:The main problem with Vista, and one MS carelessly failed to consider, is that it won't run QuickSnap. How they could overlook this important detail is beyond me.

LOL.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:46 pm

netmaestro wrote:http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=23856

Hehehe

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:46 pm

Dare wrote:
netmaestro wrote:The main problem with Vista, and one MS carelessly failed to consider, is that it won't run QuickSnap. How they could overlook this important detail is beyond me.
LOL.

LMAO

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:48 pm

I read somewhere that support was planned for QuickSnap in Vista Service Pack 1.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:29 pm

srod wrote:I read somewhere that support was planned for QuickSnap in Vista Service Pack 1.

Yeah!
A quick fix will also be available for download ...350mb... No big deal

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:25 am