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by Anand M.
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So the latest anti-piracy move from Microsoft is to put a new licensing policy out for Vista. You buy Vista, install in your machine. Buy a new machine/upgrade hardware, twice and go back and buy a new copy. MS just announced that a retail copy of Vista can only be installed in another machine once and after that you will have to buy a new copy.
This does not affect people who change their computers once in 5 year or so anyway. Nor does it affect the corporate users, that use special volume licenses. It is really the tech enthusiast who gets hit the most.
I don't understand, are new anti-piracy decisions made by just the legal people and marketing folks sitting out there in their rooms or do they even try to get some feedback from other normal users (apart from the corporations)?? Who came up with the idea that people will be happy with buying something that will may not work when I upgrade my machine. Even if I do not plan to change my machine, it is still going to be at the back of my mind that if I change something big enough I will be out of an operation system.
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