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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
Tomcat (Tom) wrote
Mike T. wrote Nope, you're thinking XP. Vista is different. It can be transferred once. There is no procedure to work-around this restriction. Believe me, there will be work-arounds. There will have to be, particularly in countrys where that scam is illegal. Even MS aint actually stupid enough to try to flout the law on that sort of thing. MS will be lenient on the one-transfer restriction. They get no choice in most countrys legally. I'm sure you will have to call a number and jump through a few hoops but eventually you will be able to get it reactivated. MS is just trying to put some road bumps in the road to try to discourage casual piracy. And doing the usual, attempting to bluff the legally pig ignorant. MS has been doing that for many years, most obviously with the claim that you cant move an OEM version from the hardware it was supplied with. Thats illegal in most countrys. |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
"Tomcat (Tom)" wrote:
John Doe wrote: Many countries (Russia, China, and Brazil) do not even have intellectual property law. Countries that have IP law just look the other way. They all use Microsoft products for free, the exact same products we pay for. China and Russia are starting to enforce IP laws though. Difficult to enforce laws that don't even exist. Especially as these countries themselves begin to innovate and need such laws to protect their own products. We're talking about a company Microsoft that has a stranglehold on the desktop personal computer software market. Yeah global economy growing pains. Poor countries reap the benefits while Americans get sqeezed, especially the middle class. We are subsidizing the growth of the rest of the world until the rest of the world catches up and can afford to start paying for some of the burden. Reducing our standard of living isn't necessary to increase the third world's standard of living. |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
Wrong. I myself called Microsoft's Licencing department and talked to them.
They said that upgrades to the SAME computer that Vista was orignally installed on will be handled just like it was for XP. They said that for example you could replace the motherboard in the computer as many times as needed without having to repurchase Vista. You would simply have to call into Microsoft's OS Activation phone number and they would ask you a series of questions and then they would reactivate your Vista copy. Lots of mistaken info floating around the web. -- DaveW ---------------- "ToolPackinMama" wrote in message . .. Comments? |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
As if anything you hear over the phone from Microsoft holds
Microsoft in check. Bigwig lawyers can't even tell what Microsoft means. "DaveW" somewhere zero.org wrote: Wrong. I myself called Microsoft's Licencing department and talked to them. They said that upgrades to the SAME computer that Vista was orignally installed on will be handled just like it was for XP. They said that for example you could replace the motherboard in the computer as many times as needed without having to repurchase Vista. You would simply have to call into Microsoft's OS Activation phone number and they would ask you a series of questions and then they would reactivate your Vista copy. Lots of mistaken info floating around the web. -- DaveW ---------------- "ToolPackinMama" laura lauragoodwin.org wrote in message news:lemdnRJzpOPoFKDYnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d comcast.com... Comments? Path: newssvr27.news.prodigy.net!newsdbm04.news.prodigy. com!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!newscon 04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!b order1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!loc al01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.c omcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:05:10 -0500 From: "DaveW" somewhere zero.org Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt References: lemdnRJzpOPoFKDYnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d comcast.com Subject: Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:05:11 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Message-ID: 7umdncI-hpW6AaPYnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d comcast.com Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.188.95.27 X-Trace: sv3-UPRON3mAWSOPWu6L/4Mi63T5FKxmenn8oV/gFHfXVt07GQZcmZJ+DboFNMq4BQvbpwa+B+GgYFboEJ1!I/U2NZVEhmHPgdkn9Zq+RIB9HsLPYqGbXBd/v+JogGCa7wdN0p96aGwCmCS2JFY+/dbSs+7/OeS1!oJY4En5CSgc8 X-Complaints-To: abuse comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: prodigy.net alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:477471 |
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Vista licence: PART 2
In my previous REPLY, I neglected to point out that Microsoft's Licensing
department stated that repeated replacing of things like motherboards in self built computers is ALLOWED under the same copy of Vista in the original computer ONLY IF YOU PAID FOR AND INSTALLED A FULL_PRICE RETAIL COPY of Vista. They will not reactivate OEM versions after ONE ALLOWED motherboard replacement. -- DaveW ---------------- "ToolPackinMama" wrote in message . .. Comments? |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:05:11 -0700, DaveW wrote:
Wrong. I myself called Microsoft's Licencing department and talked to them. They said that upgrades to the SAME computer that Vista was orignally installed on will be handled just like it was for XP. They said that for example you could replace the motherboard in the computer as many times as needed without having to repurchase Vista. You would simply have to call into Microsoft's OS Activation phone number and they would ask you a series of questions and then they would reactivate your Vista copy. Lots of mistaken info floating around the web. That's not what the Vista EULA says. The mistaken info comes directly from the Vista EULA. |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
Crispy Critter wrote
DaveW wrote Wrong. I myself called Microsoft's Licencing department and talked to them. They said that upgrades to the SAME computer that Vista was orignally installed on will be handled just like it was for XP. They said that for example you could replace the motherboard in the computer as many times as needed without having to repurchase Vista. You would simply have to call into Microsoft's OS Activation phone number and they would ask you a series of questions and then they would reactivate your Vista copy. Lots of mistaken info floating around the web. That's not what the Vista EULA says. Wrong. There is no conflict between that statement above and the Vista EULA. The mistaken info comes directly from the Vista EULA. Wrong again. Its silent on that question of a replacement motherboard. And legally they havent got a leg to stand on anyway, regardless of the EULA. |
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Vista licence: PART 2
DaveW wrote:
In my previous REPLY, I neglected to point out that Microsoft's Licensing department stated that repeated replacing of things like motherboards in self built computers is ALLOWED under the same copy of Vista in the original computer ONLY IF YOU PAID FOR AND INSTALLED A FULL_PRICE RETAIL COPY of Vista. They will not reactivate OEM versions after ONE ALLOWED motherboard replacement. They cant do that last legally. As they will find out. ToolPackinMama wrote Comments? |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
Same Guy wrote:
If I do switch to Vista, it may be 5 years from now after someone has figured out how to hack it to bits. ^^ LOL ::highfive!:: |
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Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?
JAD wrote:
you guys just don't get it....... MS will be long gone, computers will be appliances.......OS will be free and on a chip that you plug into ANY machine Yeah, yeah. Gimmee my robot slave, and flying car. |
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