rec.autos.simulators

Quote:
"The Windows XP EULA appears to implicitly allow infinite transfers because
it doesn't explicitly explain how many times one might transfer a single
copy of XP. As it turns out, infinite transfers wasn't the intention. "This
clause was always aimed at very specific circumstances," Microsoft general
manager Shanen Boettcher told me. "Someone has a hardware failure, but still
wants to run that copy of Windows on the new machine, for example."

The problem, of course, was that some people felt they could install a
single copy of Windows as many times as they wanted. "It's always been per
copy, per device," Boettcher said.  And if you do actually have a
catastrophic PC failure, you'll be able to transfer your license just as
before. The process, as it turns out, hasn't changed at all. "The escalation
process is exactly the same in Vista," Boettcher told me. "You have to call
support. It just wasn't clear in Windows XP. But we wanted to do the right
thing by the customer. So we let them move a license, while being clear
about what the license is intended for. In the past haven't been super clear
up front."

When Windows examines changes to the system, the two most heavily weighed
components are the PC's motherboard and hard drive, in that order. If you
change both of these components at one time, Windows will almost certainly
assume it's running in a new computer and cause you to reactivate. "It's
that old question, 'When does a boat become a new boat?," Boettcher asked,
rhetorically. "When every plank has been replaced, is it a new boat?" In the
case of a Windows XP and Vista-based PC, there is an algorithm that examines
hardware changes and, based on an internal score, determines whether a
reactivation is required."

Pretty clear to me but then again it's not 4:20 here in Cali yet...

Mitch

Email him and tell him what you think of his article, I did. The article is
BS anyway. Here is what the XP Retail EULA says. Where does it say XP is
tied to the first PC it is installed to? It clearly doesn't.

4. TRANSFER-Internal. You may move the Product to a different
Workstation Computer. After the transfer, you must
completely remove the Product from the former Workstation
Computer. Transfer to Third Party. The initial user of the
Product may make a one-time transfer of the Product to
another end user. The transfer has to include all
component parts, media, printed materials, this EULA, and
if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity. The
transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a
consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving
the transferred Product must agree to all the EULA terms.
No Rental. You may not rent, lease, lend or provide
commercial hosting services to third parties with the
Product.

4. TRANSFER-Internal. You may move the Product to a different
Workstation Computer. After the transfer, you must
completely remove the Product from the former Workstation
Computer. Transfer to Third Party. The initial user of the
Product may make a one-time transfer of the Product to
another end user. The transfer has to include all
component parts, media, printed materials, this EULA, and
if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity. The
transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a
consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving
the transferred Product must agree to all the EULA terms.
No Rental. You may not rent, lease, lend or provide
commercial hosting services to third parties with the
Product.

 Personally I trust the author

Thurott is a shill you dumb cunt.

I had Winamp install trigger activation on me once. It was either Winamp or
that damned Starforce shite.

and how exactly did they even come up with that figure in the first place? I
expect it was sucked out of the corporate thumb, just like the amount they
supposedly lose through piracy.

The only license I agreed to is the one that is contained on my pre SP1
retail XP disk so they can shove their changes up their arse's.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/193300234

Another layer of tinfoil might help.... Ill bet you could dig up plenty of
proof of UFO's and the grassy knoll and every other liberal ***er
*** theory ever dreamed up..

You are the classic case of BC bud gone wrong!

Mitch

You really shouldn't miss your regularly scheduled medications anymore ok.

Buh-Bye loser!

Time for another doobie, thanks for reminding me.