[8800 GTS 320MB + Vista] vs [7900GS + XP]?

[J.D]

I stand by my challenge. Tell us who you are and I'll get someone to audit your licencing for you.

<----- Snaps the Student XP disc and runs .

Mr robin flimmin' hood of the PC world they call me.

 

[Tute]

OEM Licence or not, the justification for installing it on another system/upgraded system is perfectly valid imho, sure you can go out and buy the full version if you feel your personal morals will be tainted but at the end of the day microsoft will always charge ridiculous money for their operating systems wether we like it or not.

There's is no competition, no choice in the matter you either buy there software or dont use a pc, i certainly wouldnt call linux/mac osx competition, windows dominates the market WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! it wouldnt supprise me if 98% was winblows, 1% linux, 1% mac osx. It certainly feels that way sometimes.

Who cares about EULA's anyway, does anyone actually read them. Infact those that do need to chill out imho. The day average joe gets sued for breeching the EULA of a multi million dollar company i'll take notice.

I think £75 for a piece of software you will use every time you press the power button on your PC, that has taken years of development, testing, and improvements, is a friggin steal.

If you don't like it, run Linux. Or just pay double for the retail version, even then I still consider Vista to be a pretty good deal. Only reason I didn't go for it myself is that I won't be changing motherboards, for a fact.

 

[spb251272]

I stand by my challenge. Tell us who you are and I'll get someone to audit your licencing for you.

For god's sake, get a life! Why would I be telling someone like you who I am. You are definitely not the sort of person I'd want to give any personal details to Have you led the perfect life? No indiscretions whatsoever? I must look pretty small from waaaaay up there on your moral high ground.

You know, I could quite easily not have paid for vista at all, and used the time freeze crack, but no, I paid my hard earned cash. Yet when I upgrade 2 months later, you think that I should just buy another copy (or 3 times as much for the retail version) when there's a perfectly LEGAL loophole. I'm not sure exactly why you believe I would need a new licence anyway, I simply said on the phone to microsoft that I was replacing a faulty motherboard. How on earth would they know that I wasn't. And as for it not being the same model, well maybe they don't make the original one anymore. These are all perfectly legitimate circumstances.

Seriously, I have never had any negative comments on this forum before. Yet when I try to give some perfectly legitimate advice (as per the info on Anandtech) I get singled out as a software PIRATE. Come on, do yourself (and me) a favour and find something interesting to focus your energies on

 

[WJA96]

As I read it, it's not legitimate advice, it's encouraging others to break the terms of the Microsoft Vista EULA, or to buy an inappropriate product because you have gotten away with wilfully breaking the EULA in the past.