Re: Thundercleets Myth - Microsoft limits the # of times you can transfer a retail Vista license

Thundercleets wrote:
On Aug 8, 2:13 pm, Steve de Mena <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thundercleets wrote:
On Aug 6, 6:33 pm, Steve de Mena <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thundercleetswrote:
On Aug 6, 1:02 pm, Steve de Mena <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thundercleetswrote:
You can't legally transfer Vista to more than 2 installs
WRONG. There is no 2 install limit. I already pointed this out to
you once. Did you miss that?
"15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may uninstall the
software and
install it on another device for your use. You may not do so to share
this license between
devices."
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/Windows%20Vista_Ulti...
or
http://tinyurl.com/yhmyjk
and you are
legally required to remove it from the original computer.
Under current terms you can transfer your license from Mac to Mac as
long as you have it installed to one machine at a time.
Steve
Hi Steve,
You were also wrong then as was pointed out...
Here you go:
There's lots on this, if you wanted to search the term but here is yet
another example:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/10/10/RC2...
You are probably confused in that M$ says you can install unlimited
for same hardware, the exact same hardware.
You can only transfer once.
TechNet has lots on this also.
You can read it or you can shut up, I don't care which.
"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly."
- Mao Tse-Tung
I cited the actual current Windows Vista EULA. Your URL is from the
pre-release Vista days, RC2. October 2006. I already told you the
licensing was changed - even BEFORE Vista was released.
Pathetic.
I won't "shut up".
Again, from the EULA:
"15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may uninstall the
software and
install it on another device for your use. You may not do so to share
this license between
devices."
The "one time" clause was removed before Vista's release.
http://tinyurl.com/6yoa8l
"...Provided you uninstall the operating system from your original
computing device and do not share the license among multiple devices,
you are no longer limited in the number of times that you may reassign
the license to different devices," Microsoft revealed. "
Steve
CNET reported that “Under changes to Microsoft’s licensing terms,
buyers of retail copies of Vista will be able to transfer their
software to a new machine only once. If they want to move their
software a second time, they will have to buy a new copy of the
operating system.”
http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-limits-Vista-transfers/2100-1016_3-612...
or
http://tinyurl.com/6mkk5t
That is from MID 2006, MANY months before Vista was released.

I'll tell you a THIRD TIME how the EULA was changed before Vista was
released, removing those restrictions. You are able to read the EULA
I posted the URL to?

Not that it matters but I have had TechNet / MSDN Universal access for
years.

Now I'll wait for you to dig up yet another old URL reference from 2
years ago.

Steve

Steve,

If you had TechNet then you would know what kind of crap you are
spewing because TechNet talks about the differences between
transferring a license on the same machine versus transferring a
license to a different one or at least one with a different main
board. I'm not sure what part of your anus that like came out of but
the activation restriction still applies.

Lets just agree to disagree because this is getting pretty boring.

Send me the TechNet link if you want.

I'm still waiting for ONE single piece of proof that the current license does not permit you to transfer retail Vista unlimited times to different machines.

I am not "spewing" anything when I cite the actual EULA.

The legal EULA trumps anything written here or anything else.

What does the "activation" process, and whatever happens with that, have anything to do with what we were discussing?

Steve
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