Responding to the myriad complaints over ambiguities and outright uncool (that's a technical term) licensing terms, Microsoft has revised the Windows Vista retail license to remove some of the most major causes of complaint. A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars Technica that the changes do indeed come in response to concerns from the PC enthusiast community. "We heard that users wanted more flexibility, and this change should give hardware enthusiasts in particular more latitude to upgrade their PCs or reassign their license to a new PC, while still making clear our intentions to protect our software from piracy," the spokesperson said.

A previous version of the Windows Vista retail license restricted the number of times you may transfer Vista from one device to another. The license read: "The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the 'licensed device.'"

Source: ArsTechnica 

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M$ Agent #2 (Registered) 2006-11-05 02:28:15 sounds like a step in the right dirrection I know ALOT of people who pirated a copy of XP Pro corp just to not have to deal with the whole activation thing every time they wanted to swap out hardware ! Most of them had legit copies of XP so I dont see the whole piracy thing. Alot of the people I think would pay a little extra for a version that was less draconian about how many machines it was installed on Reply | Quote

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