"Colin Barnhorst" wrote
> The Vista EULA states:
>
> "8. SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement
> only gives you some
> rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless
> applicable law gives you
> more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as
> expressly permitted in this
> agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in
> the software that only
> allow you to use it in certain ways. For more information, see
> http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/userights. You may not
> · work around any technical limitations in the software;
> (snip)
>
> The procedure in the DT article may be covered by this provision. At the
> very least, I would check with MS to see if does before recommending it to
> others.
Say it is in fact a violation of the EULA, there is no way to know that was
done, is there? So in effect there is no practical way to enforce it.
Knowing something is a violation of the EULA has an impact on some, but
others don't care. Moving an OEM copy of the OS to a new computer, then
lying when calling in for activation, is no problem for some folks. With no
teeth to the enforcement it opens things wide for dual boot with the
qualifying OS, selling that OS, installing it on another system, etc. I
can't believe they left open this door.
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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]