Licensing Changes to Windows Vista
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 10/16/2006 03:47 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 1370 views
There's been a lot of baloney online about Microsoft's changes to the Vista EULA. Find out the truth in my latest showcase, Licensing Changes to Windows Vista!
I'm here to tell you that virtually everything you've read online about the changes to Windows Vista's end-user license agreement (EULA) is wrong. Microsoft is further limiting your rights to transfer Windows to new PCs? Wrong. Microsoft is limiting your ability to upgrade your PC? Wrong. Microsoft is limiting the Vista versions you can install in virtual machines? Well, that one is partially correct. But there's a reason.
Here's what's really happening.
Paul Thurrott Windows SuperSite
I'm here to tell you that virtually everything you've read online about the changes to Windows Vista's end-user license agreement (EULA) is wrong. Microsoft is further limiting your rights to transfer Windows to new PCs? Wrong. Microsoft is limiting your ability to upgrade your PC? Wrong. Microsoft is limiting the Vista versions you can install in virtual machines? Well, that one is partially correct. But there's a reason.
Here's what's really happening.
Paul Thurrott Windows SuperSite
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