Author Topic: changed your mobo? well you just invalidated your OEM Windows license, says MS  (Read 1644 times)

Offline disciple

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Microsoft recently made a change to the licence agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence you need to purchase a new Windows licence.
Here is what Microsoft has to say:
 
 “An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a “new personal computer” to which Microsoft® OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or replaced for reasons other than a defect, then a new computer has been created and the license of new operating system software is required.”
The reason Microsoft gave for this term is that “Microsoft needed to have one base component “left standing” that would still define that original PC. Since the motherboard contains the CPU and is the “heart and soul” of the PC, when the motherboard is replaced (for reasons other than defect) a new PC is essentially created.”
Microsoft sent a memo to its OEM partners asking them to enforce this new policy, every time they upgrade a computer for a client.

wtf? didnt we already PAY the windows tax when the system was bought?

http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/15/microsoft-upgraded-motherboard-new-licence/
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All this will do is increase the level of "piracy" of their product and the public acceptance of such "piracy".  I mean this forum is a bad place to try to guage the public acceptance of piracy because gamers tend to favor "piracy". But let's be totally honest: Most of us are willing to buy original software if we feel there is something worth what we are paying.

I know of people who have played the pirate version of a game and then gone out and bought the original, just to own it, even if the pirated version was the exact same.

I'm an "old" gamer so I remember the days when shareware was king, and together with several schoolmates actually purchased a copy of a game (OMF i forget which version look it up if you never heard of it, dont try to play on a newer PC unless you have something to slow it to hell down) so we could get all the extra "arenas" to fight in. I rememebr one game where the author asked that anyone who really liked the game send him a lil something in the way of stamps (he was an avid stamp collector and figured that it would be worth his effort if he got a couple dollars worth of stamps from any given country).

There'll always be free alternatives, but because they aren't mainstream a lot of people will not know about them and will not have the experience needed to feel comfortable using them, not to mention the issues that a lot of free systems have that make us gamers want to avoid them like the plague. Piracy on the other hand typically just involves someone calling up this fella they know who come and do a kinda ting so and bam, it wukking and it free too.

The public is already being told that software piracy is funding terrorists and they arent buying into it. I have a feeling that we'll be seeing this sort of thing being the socially accepted norm:
http://www.themexp.org/preview.php?mid=2854&type=boot&view=downloads&page=&cat=&name=Pirated+Edition+III.zip

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This move will only impact consumers who really don't know much about PCs.  I could forsee a scenario where everytime you want to buy a motherboard, you will be forced to buy a new copy of the current version Windows OS.  So a man find he PC slow, he ALREADY buy a Windows, and now M$ tryin to justify why he must buy over the SAME THING!!?

UTTER BALLZ!!!

Unfortunately, this will only help to spur on piracy like nothing else.
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lol soooooooooooooooooooooooo hard @ pirates funding terrorist lol lol lol ahhaaha


and yea M$ yuh f*KIN up. tlak done.

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