Vista, one reinstall

Ghryphen · 2006-10-13, 05:21 PM

So much for the constant computer tweaks, upgrades, rebuilds, and just plain old reformat.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156

Peacemaker · 2006-10-13, 05:29 PM

how would this affect a reformat? its still the same machine

Ghryphen · 2006-10-13, 05:39 PM

I'm pretty sure it is the same thing, you have to activate after a format. Unless it allows re-activation of the same computer.

But that doesn't matter to me really, the only time I reinstall is when I am making significant changes to the computer, with is like every 10 months.

Hamma · 2006-10-13, 06:29 PM

Corporate version ftw

Dumbass microsoft, them doing this crap just makes people hate them more.

Setari · 2006-10-14, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Corporate version ftw

Dumbass microsoft, them doing this crap just makes people hate them more.

I would wager that it might lead to more pirating as well, but an uneducated guess at best.

Mag-Mower · 2006-10-14, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Setari

I would wager that it might lead to more pirating as well, but an uneducated guess at best.

I agree. I do download stuff because its expensive. If a full featured photoshop were to cost $100-200, I would buy it retail. When it costs $1700 however, I simply dont have the money.

Hamma · 2006-10-15, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Setari

I would wager that it might lead to more pirating as well, but an uneducated guess at best.

It matters not what Microsoft does at this point, people will always find a way past even the best countermeasures.

Aside from putting a armed guard next to your PC at all times, MS will never be able to stop the pirating of their OS.

TX3RN0BILL · 2006-10-15, 09:19 PM

You know, I bought the Windows 2000 Professional Edition this year and the only thing it doesn't run that only runs on WinXP is the MS Flight Sim X demo, which doesn't run on anything else but WinXP with SP 2. I'll probably buy a WinXP Pro before they don't exist anymore... and I don't believe that Microsoft will drop all the support for WinXP when Vista comes out. And I'd rather install an Apple MacOS than Vista... heck, I can't even run Vista on my current hardware anyway, so I really shouldn't bother...

Hamma · 2006-10-16, 07:55 AM

Gotta love how MS gives you no choice other than to run Flight Sim on XP

TX3RN0BILL · 2006-10-16, 07:15 PM

Btw, and sorry for going OT, but I wanted to ask - does anybody know if Win2k Pro, fully updated to SP4 etc etc etc, supports multi-core CPUs? 'Cause I'd just love to run that low-min-spec on a high-end Hardware... and I was actually waiting for the Quad-cores to upgrade from my good old 32-bit single-core AMD XP processor...

Hamma · 2006-10-16, 07:53 PM

If I had to guess I would say no, they stopped supporting W2K a while ago and it was made well before Dual Core.

Not sure though ;P

Disconnecting · 2006-10-16, 10:03 PM

What did windows xp have that was quickly removed? I seem to remember it was something just as bad as this when xp just came out...

Ghryphen · 2006-11-02, 06:13 PM

They have revised their policy.

You may uninstall the software and install it on another device for your use. You may not do so to share this license between devices.

Vista Blog

Hamma · 2006-11-02, 09:57 PM

Sweet

Peacemaker · 2006-11-03, 01:40 AM

Oh joy, another step for reformating a PC... call techsupport BEFORE you reformat. My life is now complete....

Assholes better make it free.