EULA

[Guest]

Hi,

I am concerned with the EULA clause that states:

"The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device
one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the
“licensed device.â€"

The obvious questions are:

A) How is the change of device detected?
B) If it is detected by tracking "substantial" changes of hardware (that is
the old method) how will that effect end users such as myself who build their
own PC's and upgrade incrmentally over a number of years until changing out
all of the hardware at once?
C) If the OS is "degraded" into a semi-functional state do to this detection
will it be possible to reactivate the OS into a normal state?
D) Will the reactivation process be 1) Free, 2) Quick and 3) available 365/24?

If the answer to C) is no or any part of D) is no I must say that that would
start my transition to FreeBSD or Linux.


Many thanks

Bill

 

[Alias~-]

Hi,

I am concerned with the EULA clause that states:

"The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device
one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the
“licensed device.â€"

The obvious questions are:

A) How is the change of device detected?

A little program that comes with the OS does that.

B) If it is detected by tracking "substantial" changes of hardware (that is
the old method) how will that effect end users such as myself who build their
own PC's and upgrade incrmentally over a number of years until changing out
all of the hardware at once?

MS hasn't been kind enough to tell us what changes in hardware will
trigger the YOU'RE A THIEF! notices.

C) If the OS is "degraded" into a semi-functional state do to this detection
will it be possible to reactivate the OS into a normal state?

No info yet.

D) Will the reactivation process be 1) Free, 2) Quick and 3) available 365/24?

No info yet.

If the answer to C) is no or any part of D) is no I must say that that would
start my transition to FreeBSD or Linux.


Many thanks

Bill

Start, although XP will be around for years.

Alias

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Actually, they have posted the changes from XP/2003 activation. The posting
does give the weighting of the hardware characteristics. The most notable
change was the increased weight given to the system drive. I saw the link
here some weeks ago but did not copy it. It is somewhere on microsoft.com
however.

 

[Alias~-]

Actually, they have posted the changes from XP/2003 activation. The posting
does give the weighting of the hardware characteristics. The most notable
change was the increased weight given to the system drive. I saw the link
here some weeks ago but did not copy it. It is somewhere on microsoft.com
however.

Um, we were speculating about Vista, not XP.

Alias

 

[John Barnes]

Um, he said the CHANGES FROM XP. Think Vista.

Um, we were speculating about Vista, not XP.

Alias

 

[Alias~-]

Um, he said the CHANGES FROM XP. Think Vista.

Oh, OK, I misunderstood.

Alias