vista transfers is now unlimited

[renegade600]

looks like microsoft backed off on limits to installing the retail version of vista. You can now transfer it unlimited times as long as the previous copy is uninstalled.



REDMOND, Wash.--Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times that retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista license to a different computer.

see this (http://news.com.com/Microsoft+backtracks+on+Vista+transfer+limits/2100-1016_3-6131900.html)

I do wish they would make another change and let you install it on two computers at the same time.

[Little Wing]

thanks for keepin us updated... sounds good. I wish the same too...doubtful though :(

[jtdoom]

Hi
it seems to me that one could always put retail versions onto another machine when you followed the rules set in the EULA.
I don't think Microsoft planned to change that for retail VISTA.

EDIT, hmmm... should have read the articles.
You started me thinking about something else. (the choice options in VISTA)
One better not immediately activate until sure one runs the right choice for the intended use.

[Pi rules]

I believe that all Vista versions will be on the DVD. The product key will determine which features are/aren't installed or available. I think that they will let you purchase a higher version for the difference between the two, but, like jtdoom said it's best to make sure you have the right version first.

[Snurfen]

and on your final configuration of hardware that you plan to run it on long term.

[renegade600]

and on your final configuration of hardware that you plan to run it on long term.

and everyone says amen :rotflmao:

[jtdoom]

Amen to that too...
hardware compatibility test produced different results in a rig, when I reconfigured the hard disk setup.
I was doing this while I ran tests on setup after driverpacks slipstreaming and hotfix sliptreaming (using RVM integrator and driverpacks base)
so I hook up an old drive (2Mb Cache/5400rpm PATA mode 5) and run setup, then run the advisor test.. and the drive is a real bottleneck.

For another test on other controller chip in same machine, I hook up a 7200rpm 16Mb-cached SATA, and it is less of a bottleneck
(still brings it down to only 72 percent...)

the twin machine runs on four 7200rpm 16Mb-cached SATA drives, set up in stripe/mirrored RAID array
and that got me the highest score (it is indeed quite speedy).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx


XP PRO X64 ran faster than the 32bit versions on the testrig.
I still have to trun trials with a x64 version of VISTA RC2.
I am particularly interested wether it behaves like XP-pro X64 when I look at data (like when I want to sort songs based on what is in the MP3 tags).

All of this is OT perhaps, but none the less..
This is OD, right?
Here are... a few links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/

you could run a vista 32 bit in a virtual machine
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afaf-20bcb7f01cd1&DisplayLang=en

a beta of VPC2007 is also available (atm, I use this).

this is also somewhat controversial, a UK magazine commented on this (because the upgrade costs money..)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/expressupgrade.mspx

edit;; that upgrade advisory test is not the test I used...
I just ran the new one, and it looks way different.

[Snurfen]

Jaak, was your last link supposed to be to the magazine article? It takes me to the Express Upgrade page at MS.

I also read an article by Jon Honeyball in UK's version of PC Pro the other day. He made some excellent points about MS missing the goal by a mile with Vista. See if I can dig up the article and link it back to this post.

*EDIT* DUH! They are hardly going to put this months magazine on the web while it's still on sale in the newsstands! Sorry.

[jtdoom]

Hi Snurfen

I get PC Pro newsletters, and my only regret is that when it hits the shelves in our shops, it is like six weeks AFTER it got in the newsstands in the UK...

and yes, that was the zine I referred to...