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Microsoft Will Allow Vista Reinstalls

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yay-for-logic dept.

Claus Valca writes "I just spotted over on the Windows Vista Team Blog the news that the Windows Vista retail licensing terms are being revised. Looks like PC home-brew system builders have been let back into the Vista party!" From the article: "Our intention behind the original terms was genuinely geared toward combating piracy; however, it's become clear to us that those original terms were perceived as adversely affecting an important group of customers: PC and hardware enthusiasts. You who comprise the enthusiast market are vital to us for several reasons, not least of all because of the support you've provided us throughout the development of Windows Vista. We respect the time and expense you go to in customizing, building and rebuilding your hardware and we heard you that the previous terms were seen as an impediment to that — it's for that reason we've made this change."

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  1. Er.. by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like Microsoft has just discovered this PC and hardware enthusiasts group?!

  2. No, really... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1, Funny

    Drink the Kool-Aid. Trust us - it's delicious.

    --
    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  3. What the heck is going on? by revery · · Score: 4, Funny

    First Microsoft partners with Novell to support Linux and now they are responding to a request regarding a license change in an all too human way, with normal human words and everything. It reminds me of an old Dilbert strip:

    If aliens kidnap and then impersonate Steve Ballmer, is it a bad thing?
    It depends on the aliens...

  4. Oh my word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    First the story of MS working with Novell & Linux and now this.

    I'll be hiding under my bed till the world gets right...

  5. Re:Great! by Trillan · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't really get the excitement.

    In the Windows XP EULA, Microsoft granted themselves permission to feel you up. In the first version of the Vista EULA, Microsoft retained the permission to feel you up, but added a clause that said they would sexually violate you at their discretion while the Bee Gees play in the background.

    But it's okay now! They've turned off the Bee Gees.