By now everybody knows that the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Vista, will be out soon. What most people don't know is how restrictive the new End-User License Agreement is for Vista. If you thought that Microsoft's court battles against various governments over its monopolistic desires made them soften up, read this article by Scott Granneman.
As an example, one if things the new EULA restricts is how many time you may reinstall Vista. It used to be that as logn as you only had it running on one computer at a time, you could reinstall it as often as you wanted — like if you bought a new computer. But the new EULA only allows you to install it twice. Yup, only twice. Say you buy Vista in January when it comes out and then you get a new computer a few months later, moving Vista to it. In a few years when you next upgrade your hardware you won't be allowed to install Vista on that one because you all ready used your two times.
This is the first thing that has ever made me think of getting rid of Microsoft software entirely, instead of having it on just one of my 3 computers.
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