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Tough new rules on Vista OEM
Friday, November 10th, 2006
The tech community has breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as Microsoft announced it 
was backflipping on a nasty clause in its EULA that prevented users from reinstalling Vista more than once on a new or modified PC.
However don’t settle down for a bedtime story just yet: Microsoft hasn’t done the full circus trick. The relaxed rules around transferring Vista to new PCs only apply if you purchase the expensive full retail edition of Vista — which, frankly, few people will.
Sure, if you do bite the bullet and buy the boxed version at Harvey Norman, you’ll be free to upgrade your machine or install Vista on another machine as many times as you like.
You won’t be forced to plead with some out-sourced help-desk jockey to convince them that you just upgraded your CPU and video card.
Unfortunately OEM copies won’t get the same liberties. These installations of Vista will still be restricted to only one transferal or one major upgrade to your machine. Tough new rules on Vista “OEM” | APC Magazine
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