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Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-that's-handy dept.

NiK0laI writes "TechWeb has posted an article regarding Vista's new license and how it allows you to only move it to another device once. How will this work for people who build their PCs? I have no intention of purchasing a new license every time I swap out motherboards. '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. ... Elsewhere in the license, Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtual machine. "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.'" Overly Critical Guy points out more information about changes to Vista's EULA and the new usage restrictions. "For instance, Home Basic users can't copy ISOs to their hard drives, can't run in a virtualized environment, and can only share files and printers to a maximum of 5 network devices."

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  1. Re:Two words... by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have a point about the apps, but who plays games on PCs anymore?

  2. Re:Thanks for the heads up by SavvyPlayer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Translation: Me, I, wow, me, I wow, me wow, wow, wow, me. I wow boycott Vista. Me wow, I me Vista wow boycott. Such cogent criticisms, I fear, may fall on deaf ears.

  3. Re:Same tired old rhetoric by codepunk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And you are telling me you bought 3DSMAX, I call bullshit you are running pirated shit. Only the biggest of the biggest companies can even afford it and if they can only one dude get's it. Nope I will download and run blender, at least it is legal and I ain't paying crap for it.

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  4. You must make a whole lot more money than me by codepunk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I make a shit load of money but not enough to just drop nearly 10 grand on the software you just
    listed.....or is it perhaps you use pirated copies?

    There is not a single package you listed that a home user would be willing to drop the cash on, it
    just ain't happening. The only reason any of that stuff is even popular is because 90% of it in use
    is pirated.

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  5. Re:Two words... by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I see all these articles about annoying "features" of Vista and think to myself "What do I care? I'll never use it."

    And yet you read the articles anyway and post comments that really add little to the conversation, regardless. Remind me what your point was?

  6. I just need to get this off my chest.. by Ricken · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    LOL VISTA SUCKS

  7. Uh, don't you mean.... (Re:Off Topic) by bratwiz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >> Originally the term PC meant Personal Computer, until IBM named there personal computer a PC. Sort of like Microsoft naming their operating system Windows.

    Uh, don't you mean sorta like Microsoft naming their Windows an "Operating System"?