Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click.
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12.5.2007 Enable both Aero and Glass in Vista Home Basic
I'm gonna give u some tips for people who are stuck up with Vista Home Basic
I really never wanted to have the Vista Home Basic. But when i got my Lappy i had no other option, but to stick on with this OEM version.
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28.10.2007 Vistalizator - Install Multiple Languages MUI on Vista Home, Basic & Starter Edition
Windows Vista Home, Basic and Starter editions are available at low prices compared to Windows Vista Ultimate edition however Vista Home, Basic & Starter editions have many restrictions like support for only one language, No Aero support, no remote desktop etc.
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4.8.2009 Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Home Premium vs. Business vs. Ultimate
Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million Windows Vista licenses in the operating system's first six months of general availability. However, the Redmond company is right on track to correct this little slip up.
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20.8.2007 Windows 7 RTM Home Basic Screenshot Gallery
Microsoft first confirmed the Stock Keeping Unit strategy for Windows 7 at the start of February 2009, promising a simplified product line-up, as well as a marketing strategy focusing in particular on the Home Premium and Professional editions.
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22.8.2009 Maximum Hardware Specifications for Small Notebook PC (Netbook) on Windows 7 Starter (and Home Basic in China)
Microsoft has a list of Windows 7 minimum recommended system hardware specification requirement for desktop, notebook, netbook, nettop, laptop computer and tablet PC that intends to run any versions and editions of Windows 7.
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23.7.2009 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007Microsoft was advised not to brand Home Basic as Vista
A key area of controversy in an ongoing lawsuit is whether Microsoft misled consumers by allowing computer makers to label PCs as "Vista Capable"
when they could only run the most basic version of the Vista operating system, known as Vista Home Basic. Turns out Microsoft was advised to not put
the Vista name on Home Basic computers at all.
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22.01.2009Windows Gets Back to Basic
Will retailers and OEMs put a little Vista coal in this year's holiday stocking? Windows Home Basic and integrated graphics SKUs could lead to
surprisesas in uh-ohs, not wowsfor some
holiday shoppers.
Whether there is coal or not may depend on the elf. Some OEMs are offering surprisingly
good Vista SKUs and even no Windows Basic configurations.
That said, in a rush to drive down notebook prices even further, some
OEMs and retailers are pushing Basic SKUs for the holidays and continuing the trend of integrated graphics. While most retailers offer many more Home
Premium SKUs than Basic, the biggest advertised sales are for laptops with Windows Basic. Surprising: the operating system is finding place in
higher-priced SKUs, which is a holiday trend.
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27.11.2007Wal-Mart: Microsoft should kill Vista Home Basic
Preston Gralla: You may think of Wal-Mart as a down-market PC seller, but as emails in the Vista "junk PC" case show, Wal-Mart was furious
at Microsoft's Vista Capable scheme, and thought that Vista Home Basic never should have been developed, much less released. They're not alone.
Other retailers, notably Office Depot, thought Vista Home Basic should have been killed. Here's all the dirt, including emails.
The
recently unsealed Microsoft emails are part of the
lawsuit against Microsoft for a marketing scheme in which
people
claim that Microsoft misled consumers into buying the Windows Vista Capable PCs, even though the PCs couldn't run the most important features of
Vista...
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05.03.2008Look who's buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it's not home users)
Ed Bott: Who's buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you'd assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered
machines headed for tract homes in the burbs and studio apartments in the city. But you'd be wrong.
Based on my observations of
the PC market over the past year or two, I think consumers have rejected Home Basic in favor of Home Premium. But small, budget-conscious businesses
have embraced the low-end OS.
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10.10.2008Consumer Versions of Vista Available Early
mwave.com lists several
editions of Windows Vista as
in stock and ready to
ship
Although the official launch
of Windows Vista won't take
place until January 30, that
hasn't stopped some online
retailers from making the
operating system available
early. mwave.com is listing
three Vista SKUs on its
website that are in stock and
ready to ship.
The OEM versions
of Vista listed on
mwave.com's website are
significantly cheaper than the
retail pricing for Vista
listed below:
* Windows Vista Home Basic,
$199/$99.95
* Windows
Vista Home Premium,
$239/$159
* Windows
Vista Business,
$299/$199
* Windows
Vista Ultimate,
$399/$259
The editions available
include Vista 32-bit Home
Basic OEM (Microsoft Part
Number: 66G-00576) for $89.90,
Vista 32-bit Home Basic OEM
3-pack (Microsoft Part Number:
66G-00613) for $268.90 and
Vista 32-bit Business OEM
(Microsoft Part Number:
66J-02289) for $139.90. As of
today, there were no listings
for Vista Home Premium or
Vista Ultimate on the
site.
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22.01.2007Excerpts: Latest filings in 'Vista Capable' lawsuit
The lawsuit over Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" marketing program has reached a key juncture. Lawyers for the plaintiffs have formally
requested class-action status for the case, seeking to open it up to many more people, and Microsoft last week filed its official opposition to that
request. The filings contain some interesting tidbits on both sides.
First, a quick summary: The case revolves around the
marketing of Windows XP PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" last holiday season even in cases when they would only have the horsepower to run Windows
Vista Home Basic. The plaintiffs, two PC buyers, say that was deceptive, because Home Basic doesn't offer many of Windows Vista's signature
features, such as the Aero Glass interface. They say it's not a "real" Windows Vista version. Microsoft says Home Basic is a real Windows Vista
version, and it says it went to great lengths to make consumers aware of the differences among the different versions.
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26.11.2007Vista Capable suit gets class-action status
A federal judge in Seattle this afternoon granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft deceived consumers prior to Windows
Vista's launch by touting PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" even if they could only run Windows Vista Home Basic. The suit alleges that Vista Home
Basic isn't a real version of the operating system, because it lacks the operating system's signature features.
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23.02.2008Amazon Begins Selling Windows
Vista
Online retailer Amazon.com has
begun to accept pre-orders for
Windows Vista, which it says
"will be released on
January 30, 2007." The
company is charging $399 USD
for the Ultimate Edition of
Vista, $239 USD for Home
Premium and $199 USD for Home
Basic. Vista Business is
priced at $299 USD...
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29.08.2006Microsoft cuts Windows Vista price to $66 in China
As was noted
a couple days ago,
Microsoft has now officially
dramatically cut the price of
Windows Vista in China in a
bid to boost sales of its new
operating system.
Microsoft cut the
retail price of Windows Vista
Home Basic in China to 499
renminbi ($65.80), from 1,521
renminbi -- a 67 percent
reduction. The Home Premium
version of Vista also got a
significant price reduction,
down 50 percent from 1,802
renminbi to 899 renminbi.
The new
prices, which were introduced
Wednesday and outlined in a
statement from the company on
Friday, represent a steep
discount compared to what
users in the U.S. and
elsewhere are charged for the
software. Microsoft's Web
site lists the recommend U.S.
retail price of Vista Home
Basic at $199, with Home
Premium priced at $239.
Microsoft
sold 60 million Vista licenses
by the end of June, but many
in the industry remain
unimpressed by the new
operating system. ..
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03.08.2007Microsoft Windows Vista
Editions Finalised
According to sources close to
Microsoft, the company has
finalised the editions that
they will be releasing mid-end
of October 2006.
To co-inside with the 5 year
anniversary of Windows XP,
Microsoft will release the
following editions:
-Windows
Vista
-Windows Vista
Business
-Windows Vista
Business N
-Windows Vista Home
Basic
-Windows Vista Home
Basic N
-Windows Vista Home
Premium
-Windows Vista Small
Business
-Windows Vista
Ultimate
Microsoft is clearly
adhering to the European
Commissions ruling that an
unbundled version of Windows
(without Windows Media Player)
needs to be available to all
OEMs and retail outlets hence
forth.
Unfortunately we're unsure
of the specifics of each
version as this has not been
finalised yet.
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13.02.2006What's Behind Acer's Vista Complaints?
Acer Senior Vice President
James Wong, in an interview
with a leading British PC
publication last week, warned
consumers there's little to
be gained from an investment
in a PC that will only run
Windows Vista Home Basic
edition. Has Microsoft's
multi-tier marketing scheme
now backfired completely?..
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30.10.2006Update: "Vista Capable" trial
The ongoing "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against Microsoft took an interesting turn the other day when an expert witness for the plaintiffs
claimed that the Redmond company made more than $1.5 billion through their "Vista Capable" marketing campaign. The origins of the trial itself
are to be found in the months prior to Vista's release when many computers were sold with Windows XP and the promise that they would be capable of
running Vista. However, many of these PCs, which sold at a premium and bore the "Vista Capable" label, turned out to be only capable of running
Vista Basic. Hence, Microsoft is being sued for what many would call false advertising.
Read full story.....
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06.01.2009Class Action Lawsuit Claims 'Vista Capable' is Misleading
A lady in Washington state who
apparently purchased a
computer in late 2006 bearing
the "Vista Capable"
sticker, and who only later
discovered it was only capable
of running Vista Home Basic,
has filed a class action
lawsuit against Microsoft in
her home state, seeking in
excess of $5 million...
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04.04.2007Consumer Versions of Windows Vista Available Early
The official launch of Windows
Vista is planned for January
30. Some online retailers
have, however, made the
operating system available
early. mwave.com states that
it has Vista 32-bit Home Basic
OEM for $89.90, Vista
32-bit Home Basic OEM 3-pack
for $268.90 and Vista
32-bit Business OEM for
$139.90, all in stock and
ready to ship. Vista Home
Premium and Vista Ultimate are
currently unavailable.
Customers are limited to two
copies of Vista Home Basic OEM
or Vista Business OEM and they
must be purchased with
hardware for licensing
reasons. You can probably get
away with ordering a really
cheap piece of hardware and
still saving a lot over the
retail price of Vista.
Overclockers UK has previously
also started listing OEM
versions of Vista.
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22.01.2007Lawyers: Vista branding confused even Microsoft
Lawyers for plaintiffs in a case brought against Microsoft over Vista's marketing have claimed that even the software giant's marketing director was
confused by the prelaunch campaign in the U.S.
The case involves
the way Microsoft marketed PCs as
"Windows Vista capable" prior to
the
consumer launch of the operating system in January.
Plaintiffs Dianne Kelley and Kenneth Hansen
claim Microsoft was not telling the truth when it put the "Vista
capable" logo on PCs that would be capable of running only Vista Home Basic. They contend that "Vista capable" implies that the machine is able to
run all versions of Vista, rather than just the pared-down Home Basic version.
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28.11.2007Microsoft Windows Vista is now on MSDN & Connect
Thanks Andareed who
posted this news in our
forums, yes thats right MSDN
users need no longer to
wait.
Initial
reports are that this is
different from the leaked
version that has been
available for about a week on
all sorts of torrent sites,
the hash is different:
en_windows_vista_x86_dvd_X12
-34293.iso =
b71e04564ca22e4d9928e59298eff8
7cf62b382b
LRMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso
(BillGates) =
b82590481755ba3420e7314bf82b89
16a90963b5
This
single download includes the
following Windows Vista
editions:
- Windows Vista
Business
- Windows
Vista Business N
- Windows Vista Home
Basic
- Windows Vista
Home Basic N
- Windows
Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Starter
- Windows Vista
Ultimate
The product
key used to install Windows
Vista will determine which
edition will be installed. The
product keys used to install
Windows Vista Business N,
Windows Vista Home Basic N,
and Windows Vista Starter are
not currently available.
Also US testers may
find an invitation to download
any version of Vista final
they choose (a product key is
then supplied for the version
specified) my source tells me
that international users will
start to see this appearing on
their connect page within the
next day or so. It's unclear
if every tester will get a
full version of their choice.
We'll update this when
Microsoft gets back to us.
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17.11.2006Windows Vista Media Center Remotes Revealed
Today, Phillips Consumer
Electronics unveiled a new web
page outlining the new series
of Media Center remotes for
Windows Vista.
Contrary to what
Long Zheng
posted in his well known
"istartedsomething" blog
last month, the 'box like'
design will be the final
remote for Windows Vista, but
it's not alone.
Along with the Basic remote
that looks as if it came
straight from lego land, are
three other remotes as well as
three different models of the
Basic remote.
For
more detailed information on
the remotes as well as
pictures visit the link below;
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21.12.2006Slideshow in the Windows Live Photo Gallery
We didnt do much to the Slideshow feature in the Windows Live Photo Gallery, but there have been several questions coming in about this feature, so we
thought that it was worth a brief rundown of whats changed.
In a nutshell, heres how the slideshow feature works in this
release:
- XP users: Basic slideshow only (equivalent to the ˜Classic theme on Vista). No transitions, and no support for videos. The rich
themes are very dependent on the Vista graphics model, so it will take a fair amount of work to get the rich themes working on XP (more than we could
bite off for this release).
- Vista users (basic graphics hardware): The experience should be unchanged from Vista. You may see a limited
set of themes available, and may or may not see transport controls depending on the capabilities of your graphics card.
- Vista users
(premium graphics hardware): The experience should be unchanged from Vista.
We
blogged about the Vista Slideshow experience previously. Most
of this still applies (with the exception of the above notes). One exception is that although the rich themes were only available on certain Vista
SKUs, all themes are available in all Vista SKUs (again, depending on your graphics hardware).
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20.09.2007Sprint Adding SEVEN E-mail to Basic Service
For Sprint and Nextel cellular
phone customers, a basic
cellular e-mail client
software package is now being
added to the regular tier of
service at no additional
charge, for select phones
capable of sending text...
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01.12.2006Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use
"TechWeb has posted an
article regarding Vista's new
license and how it allows you
to only move it to another
device once. How will this
work for people who build
their PCs? I have no intention
of purchasing a new license
every time I swap out
motherboards. '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," reads the
license for Windows Vista Home
Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate,
and Business. In other words,
once a retail copy of Vista is
installed on a PC, it can be
moved to another system only
once. ...
Elsewhere in the license,
Microsoft forbids users from
installing Vista Home Basic
and Vista Home Premium in a
virtual machine. "You may not
use the software installed on
the licensed device within a
virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system,"
the legal language reads.
Vista Ultimate and Vista
Business, however, can be
installed within a VM.'"
Overly Critical Guy points out
more information about changes
to Vista's EULA and the new
usage restrictions. "For
instance, Home Basic users
can't copy ISOs to their hard
drives, can't run in a
virtualized environment, and
can only share files and
printers to a maximum of 5
network devices."
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