Sneaky EULA crap in Vista...

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by rogvalcox, Nov 21, 2006.

  1. rogvalcox

    rogvalcox MajorGeek

    I was reding in my new Maximum PC Mag this month, and there is a short bit in there about the New EULA in Vista!! Personally I think it is a bunch of a crock of s*#t that they would do this, but I can see why they would!! Bottom line...It will force a LOT more purchases of their software!!

    Anyway...here is the bottom line...

    You can only reassign the software license to another machine, ONE TIME!!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: So if you buy a copy of vista, then you have a right to install that OS on one machine, right...ofcourse we all know that by now, due to XP!! But...when you retire that machine...you can then migrate that same copy to the new machine...and then that's the end of the line for that piece of software that you paid hundreds for!!

    Here...check out the link to this issue/story that I read!!

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

    Roger
     
    rogvalcox, Nov 21, 2006
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  2. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    bigbazza, Nov 21, 2006
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  3. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    Mada_Milty, Nov 21, 2006
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  4. Joker_Joe

    Joker_Joe Private E-2

    its a good idea to stop people creating pirate versions but who actuall reads the eula apart from maximum pc. Unless Vista stops you from installing it on one machine it won't stop the piratee's and i'm sure they will find a way around it.
     
    Joker_Joe, Nov 21, 2006
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  5. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Hack..Hack ...sorry, must have something in my throat ...:) :)
     
    TimW, Nov 21, 2006
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  6. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    You're right; security is an illusion. I really wish this escalating battle would just end! Too many legitimate users are suffering!

    I'm really, really tired of Microsoft's product activation centre.
     
    Mada_Milty, Nov 21, 2006
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  7. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Wont comment on the licence EULA again as I've done that one to death and dont like it as much as many others, but I was worse until the slight edit.


    But Bazza, the cripple function I have seen at first hand as I accidently gave myself it yesterday, I did an upgrade of Vista 5744 to 6000 however I burned the wrong ISO and actually re-installed 5744 over itself, which at the end of the install gave me a nice "Your activation period is over and you will be running in reduced mode until you have purchased the licence specific to this version" < or words to the effect ( also forgot to take a piccy of it )

    What it does is only allow you to connect to the internet via IE7 in order to purchase a licence for your Vista version or input your already bought licence or to phone MS support to clear up and anomaly with your serial key, you can also use any of your Favs, you cannot however access the hard drives data, only the browser.

    This doesnt mean that in Vista if your fully licenced that you can only use IE7 or future releases, their actually is a whole section in Vistas Control Panel for you to set your own default applications for the likes of Browser, Music, Player, Mail, Calendar etc to defaults such as Opera, Flock, Firefox, Thunderbird etc

    its contrary to popular misconception fairly customisable in the apps you can make default.... small screenie below, note FF and Opera options in being set as default Browser from the OS.


    http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6738/untitledvhd9.jpg
     
    DavidGP, Nov 21, 2006
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  8. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Thanks, Halo. I just thought I'd try to clarify the browser comment. Bazza
     
    bigbazza, Nov 21, 2006
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  9. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    Halo's beaten this to death but I'll give you something. The thing with magazines is they are frozen in time.
    From WindowsVistaBlog
     
    augiedoggie, Nov 21, 2006
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  10. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Cheers Auggie ;)
     
    DavidGP, Nov 21, 2006
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  11. rogvalcox

    rogvalcox MajorGeek

    Excellent...glad to see that!!!!

    Roger
     
    rogvalcox, Nov 21, 2006
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  12. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    I think that MS is giving us a grace period for now to drum up sales as I can't see their current anti-piracy measures for Vista even coming close to XP's ATM, they're smarter than that.

    Did s/he notice the modem going nuts during the install, you can't get away from Vista calling home! I give the work s/he did a month to last, maybe two. BTW, the only legal copies that I know of are from either MSDN, TechConnect or Connect beta testers who submitted a bug. I think that person is jeapordizing their license.
     
    augiedoggie, Nov 24, 2006
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  13. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    plus as well as what Augie said above is the version they installed Huey the RTM build 6000 or a beta/RC version, if beta/RC then each licence key allowed 10 installs of the software ( by design ), which will run out in June07.

    Does h/she have a Volume Licence aggreement with MS, as that will allow multiple installs.

    But afaik no licence keys have been sent out as yet, so many have as Augie said a grace period in which you can run the software, before you have to activate it.... and I have seen at first hand, what happens if you runout of the grace period and "reduced mode" kicks in and I really wouldnt want that happening on a business PC.
     
    DavidGP, Nov 24, 2006
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  14. nitecrawler

    nitecrawler Guest


    Software and Glassware.......all can be cracked!

    Only what iv'e heard though!.....(at the pub)


    Regards.....
     
    nitecrawler, Nov 24, 2006
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