On Sep 22, 9:23 pm, Dave Hinz wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:27:56 -0700, Brent wrote:
You are aware officially vista is a PER INSTANCE licence. A reformat
officially invalidates your windows license and you do not own your
COPY of the OS on one computer anymore

Bah. If I have to reinstall, I have ended the use of that instance, and
I still have one instance.

you only own vista for one instance of installation

Given the quality of vista and the need to likely reload it several
times during its usable lifetime, this is either wrong, or purely evil.

reformats as ser the license agreement require you re-purchase a Vista
instance

Can you show me a cite for that? I'd love to have that in MS's own
words.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windo...ce-38060.shtml

i remember reading it in my copy of the EULA when i read it when i
turned up the new laptop

BUT i dont see it anymore when i go to the horses mouth

http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/

SO its either the most popular urban myth ever, Or microsoft realized
their wording of the EULA would trigger a revolt and quietly modified
it


Brent
Ottawa Canada