[CS-FSLUG] OT? A sneaky change in Windows licensing terms
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Fri Oct 13 08:01:47 CDT 2006
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/index.php?p=116
Previously, a retail license could be removed from one computer and
reinstalled on another with no limits. Now, you get to reinstall one time
and one time only.
With a retail version of Windows XP, there are no restrictions on the
number of times you can transfer the software from one computer to another
in your household or office. That's about to change for the worse in Vista,
with only one lifetime transfer allowed. It makes the outrageous price
difference between retail and OEM copies even more difficult to justify.
You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a
virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
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