Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers?

fornowagain · 14 Oct 2006 at 00:26

I hope this is wrong.

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"The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the "licensed device," reads the license for Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Business. In other words, once a retail copy of Vista is installed on a PC, it can be moved to another system only once.

v0n · 14 Oct 2006 at 01:19

No CPU changes, no motherboard upgrades... So unless it costs £25 it's of no particular use to anyone but laptop and pre-built PC distributors.

Energize · 14 Oct 2006 at 01:26

So the retail version of the software is now useless meaning people have to spend tons of money on multiple oem copies. I thought they has laws against monopolies in America to stop this sort of thing happening? So now quite a few people who were going to buy a legitimate retail version will probably just pirate it instead. :rolleyes:

How can such stupid microsoft employees be allowed to live?

It's like Amd saying that you can only use their oem cpus in one pc, ridiculous.

crashuk · 14 Oct 2006 at 02:14

what crap, no point getting vista then.

fornowagain · 14 Oct 2006 at 02:49

This'll put the dampeners on the enthusiast market, first gen DX10 cards not quite so appealing. Not if I have to buy a new OS with every(other) major upgrade. If the OEM's less than half the Retail, an added expense with every single new motherboard. Linux any good? How long before they EOL XP exactly?

Una · 14 Oct 2006 at 02:58

They won't stop support XP for a long time yet, however they will do everything they can to force people to upgrade to vista.
Linux is fine so long as your not a gamer (been using it 10 years here as my main os).

dirtydog · 14 Oct 2006 at 07:58

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17638784

fornowagain · 14 Oct 2006 at 12:26

Why I won't be buying Vista thread on [H]

Jimbo · 14 Oct 2006 at 16:41

Screw them. :mad:

comp builder · 14 Oct 2006 at 16:54

you'd think Bill Gates has got enough money so why cant he do us a favour and sell vista cheap and have unlimited licence. limiting the licence to only one pc is very selfish and grredy if you ask me :mad:

Jaap74 · 14 Oct 2006 at 16:59

comp builder said:
you'd think Bill Gates has got enough money so why cant he do us a favour and sell vista cheap and have unlimited licence. limiting the licence to only one pc is very selfish and grredy if you ask me

anybody would think that Microsoft are trying to make money !!

comp builder · 14 Oct 2006 at 17:06

LOL^^^