Surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA

androthi writes "Scott Granneman takes a look at some surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA that limit what security professionals and others can do with the new operating system. You want to post benchmarking results? Well, Microsoft may now have a say in it. Vista's EULA no longer shows up on Microsoft's software licensing page, but does still exist — also take note of Windows DRM deciding what you can and can not listen to, and Defender deciding and removing what it considers spyware automatically (by default)."

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surprises?

[Anonymous Coward]

The story should be how this differs from other EULAs out there...of course, that wouldnt be a story, because it doesn't. Lots of EULAs have restrictions on posting benchmarks, and drms by definition limit your use of something. But hey, don't let facts deter a good microsoft bashing.

So basically, there aren't "surprises," as the title infers, because
a) if you read other eulas you'll see the same things
b) if you choose to ignore them just to bash microsoft you'd probably expect stuff like this to be there anyway.