On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:05:07 -0700, "Colin Barnhorst"
<colinbarharst@msn.com> 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.
>
>Now, guys, fire away.
Don't see any problem at all with this. The functionality to do the
clean install work around is built into the Setup.exe program which
comes with the Official MS version of Vista. This means it was
released by MS and that they know that this functionality exists. You
are not bypassing any technical limitations if you simply know about a
non-published function that is built into the program.