You would have to be nuts to buy Vista

[cool2bme]

Hi ... My understanding is with Vista we are only allow to transfer this operating system to another computer once ? If this is the case ? Then I feel Microsoft is screwing the consumers , I don't believe I will be buying Vista , You would have to be nuts to buy Vista under those conditions

[dohray]

Read Paul Thurrott's take on the licensing changes.

[renegade600]

Originally Posted by cool2bme

Hi ... My understanding is with Vista we are only allow to transfer this operating system to another computer once ? If this is the case ? Then I feel Microsoft is screwing the consumers , I don't believe I will be buying Vista , You would have to be nuts to buy Vista under those conditions

look at it this way, most will get vista with their computer (oem), since you wont be able to transfer those at all (just like xp), what the difference.

If one does purchase vista, they may replace their computer at least one time, if they build their own they will need it otherwise, the computer will come with an oem. If they replace it a second time, most likely by then its either going to be oem or microsoft will be about ready for a new version.

The only people its going to mess with are those who replace their computers sooner than the average computer user.

[Snurfen]

and those that like to fiddle about and change discs/processors etc on a regular basis.

there'll be a stink about this one, I expect to see a big furore in the courts before much longer.

I'm a jammy toerag, got a select agreement and an MSDN - licences central ;-)

[cool2bme]

I agree to get OEM but not retail and again when XP retail came out there wasn't any limit as to how many times it could be transfer over but with vista there is ,just one time only ... I don't care for myself because I will not be buying vista , I just want to inform others before they think about buying a retail version of Vista

[DarkDwarf]

Originally Posted by renegade600

look at it this way, most will get vista with their computer (oem), since you wont be able to transfer those at all (just like xp), what the difference.

If one does purchase vista, they may replace their computer at least one time, if they build their own they will need it otherwise, the computer will come with an oem. If they replace it a second time, most likely by then its either going to be oem or microsoft will be about ready for a new version.

The only people its going to mess with are those who replace their computers sooner than the average computer user.

exactly

[Vercades]

At least they didn't monopolize the software and hardware market!

[jmtjet]

I don't believe I will be buying Vista

As with XP we don't really buy it, we buy the license to use it. Microsoft retains all copyrights to the software. It's like renting. They let us use it as long as we follow their rules. Gee, I wonder why there's so much pirating.

[renegade600]

Originally Posted by jmtjet

Gee, I wonder why there's so much pirating.

because users are too cheap to get it legally...

[cool2bme]

Here one that you should read

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=158

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[jmtjet]

Me thinks Ed Bott has issues with Paul Thurrott, other than MS EULA's.

[cool2bme]

Originally Posted by jmtjet

Me thinks Ed Bott has issues with Paul Thurrott, other than MS EULA's.

Whatever , Go buy Vista when it become available and when you make more then one hardware change ? Don't go crying to Microsoft because you can't install Vista any longer because I bet your that type that will ...

[gimpy530]

Originally Posted by renegade600

because users are too cheap to get it legally...

Why now who would do a thing like that?