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[Brandon]

Important Windows Vista Licensing Changes

Ed Bott tells us about changes to the Windows Vista EULA. But that's not the whole story. Starting on Page 11, here is a synopsis of what I believe are the most far-reaching changes, as I have interpreted them:

• Home Basic
  • Can't copy ISO to your hard drive
  • Can't install to a network server
  • You may share files, printers, etc with a maximum of 5 network devices
  • You MAY NOT use Remote Desktop, only Remote Assistance
  • You MAY NOT use in Virtual PC | Virtual Server |VMWare
• Home Premium
  • Still can't copy ISO to your hard drive
  • Still can't install to a network server
  • Sharing for 10 network devices
  • Still no Remote Desktop
  • Still no virtual hardware
  • 5 simultaneous Media Center Extender sessions (up from 3 in MCE 2005)
• Ultimate
  • Can copy ISO to your hard drive
  • Can install to a network server (I'm assuming for Terminal Server scenarios)
  • Sharing for 10 network devices
  • Can use Remote Desktop
  • Can use in a virtualized environment, BUT
    • Can't use DRM-protected content if Vista Ultimate is the "guest" OS
    • Can't use BitLocker if Vista Ultimate is the "guest" OS
  • 5 Media Center Extender sessions

I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. On one hand, I don't have a problem with it, cause I'll be using Ultimate anyways... but I have a feeling that other people probably will. Either way, I'm thinking maybe they should put this stuff at the top of the EULA, instead of burying it at the bottom. These are important things that people in a purchasing position need to know about.



So if your going to VMWare it, get Ultimate i guess



Orgional Storey: http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/ro...mportant-Windows-Vista-Licensing-Changes.aspx

 

[Zenax]

I don't think I like the idea of that. Fore a start won't the ultimate version, cost more money??

Second of all, I will have to agre with you about the fact that, those things should be at the top. That way it shows to people the diffrences. By burying them, they are hoping no one will find them, and just buy their products.

 

[IIN Operator]

This whole anti-piracy thing is overblown and is causing companies to put out crappy programs, based on the moronic idea that the pirates won't be able to disable the system. Even though these are features that nobody uses to begin with, Microsoft is trying to remove features to protect itself from piracy. I think consumers as a whole should refuse to buy any products with these copy protection techniques and stick with what we have (which is already more than good enough by the way). That would send the computer industry a message that they need to start designing their products for the customer, not for themselves.

The computer industry is the rare industry where as time has gone on, companies have put out increasingly less consumer-oriented products and focused on crippling it for self-serving purposes. Blockbuster used to charge people late fees all the time and it was accepted because that was an acceptable way to do business in the rental industry. Then Netflix came along and people stopped renting from Blockbuster in favor of doing business with Netflix and keeping movies as long as they wanted. Then when Blockbuster responded to Netflix, they only further established Netflix as the industry leader. In the computer industry, older software and hardware are often more functional than newer software and hardware. I personally won't be buying a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player anytime soon, nor will I allow the game system pricing scams to continue by paying twice the price as these companies wish everybody to do. And I definitely won't be buying Windows Vista, even if Microsoft decides to intimidate software makers into dropping Windows XP, as they previously did with Windows 95 a few years ago.

Windows XP's Activation was more than enough of a scam. It should have been removed from the software completely in the next version because it was idiotic. Once you purchase a software program, you have the right to install it on as many computers as you want. Any company stating otherwise is unfit to do business with. Everybody should stick with what they have until a panicking Microsoft fixes all of their intentional flaws in Windows Vista and apologizes for their prior actions.

 

[Trixter]

This whole anti-piracy thing is overblown and is causing companies to put out crappy programs, based on the moronic idea that the pirates won't be able to disable the system. .....

....Windows XP's Activation was more than enough of a scam. It should have been removed from the software completely in the next version because it was idiotic. Once you purchase a software program, you have the right to install it on as many computers as you want. Any company stating otherwise is unfit to do business with. Everybody should stick with what they have until a panicking Microsoft fixes all of their intentional flaws in Windows Vista and apologizes for their prior actions.

Some of what you say is true but i for one would like to thank :thefinger Gates:thefinger for XP/Vista/Activation:lockd: and all the problems it brings:naughty: as it has caused most of the major corparation to swich over to linux.(which as we all know is a MUCH better system and infinatly more stable then anything windows cam out with (win 200 excluded)

 

[Spartan Erik]

Wow what bull. It's quite obvious I'm going to stick with XP until I die haha

 

[t2t2t]

Wow what bull. It's quite obvious I'm going to stick with XP until I die haha

I guess i *have* 2 too. And i have probably longer to live than u... Unless i switch to ubuntu... but first i gotta find out how to get my connection work on ubuntu...

 

[IIN Operator]

Some of what you say is true but i for one would like to thank :thefinger Gates:thefinger for XP/Vista/Activation:lockd: and all the problems it brings:naughty: as it has caused most of the major corparation to swich over to linux.(which as we all know is a MUCH better system and infinatly more stable then anything windows cam out with (win 200 excluded)

I think the Activation feature is responsible for the increasing market share of Mac OS X and Linux. Microsoft is probably too dumb to realize that they're tossing the market away to their competition. I guess we don't need anti-trust laws after all. Our big corporations that get to massive sizes are good enough at bringing themselves back to earth that the government doesn't need to.

Could this also be Wal-Mart's fate in the near future?

 

[Bonekhan]

This whole anti-piracy thing is overblown and is causing companies to put out crappy programs, based on the moronic idea that the pirates won't be able to disable the system. Even though these are features that nobody uses to begin with, Microsoft is trying to remove features to protect itself from piracy. I think consumers as a whole should refuse to buy any products with these copy protection techniques and stick with what we have (which is already more than good enough by the way). That would send the computer industry a message that they need to start designing their products for the customer, not for themselves.

The computer industry is the rare industry where as time has gone on, companies have put out increasingly less consumer-oriented products and focused on crippling it for self-serving purposes. Blockbuster used to charge people late fees all the time and it was accepted because that was an acceptable way to do business in the rental industry. Then Netflix came along and people stopped renting from Blockbuster in favor of doing business with Netflix and keeping movies as long as they wanted. Then when Blockbuster responded to Netflix, they only further established Netflix as the industry leader. In the computer industry, older software and hardware are often more functional than newer software and hardware. I personally won't be buying a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player anytime soon, nor will I allow the game system pricing scams to continue by paying twice the price as these companies wish everybody to do. And I definitely won't be buying Windows Vista, even if Microsoft decides to intimidate software makers into dropping Windows XP, as they previously did with Windows 95 a few years ago.

Windows XP's Activation was more than enough of a scam. It should have been removed from the software completely in the next version because it was idiotic. Once you purchase a software program, you have the right to install it on as many computers as you want. Any company stating otherwise is unfit to do business with. Everybody should stick with what they have until a panicking Microsoft fixes all of their intentional flaws in Windows Vista and apologizes for their prior actions.

You could only install Home Edition on more than one computer. Still, on the first day of XP, every Pirate website on the internet had made the keygen. I forget the encryption code, but anything below 1024 bit is easy as hell for a cracker.

They'll find a way around this too, unfortunatly, as this is just another scam to get us to pay out the wazoo for software. Damn Microsoft.