There have been moments where MS has denied what I thought were reasonable re-up requests recently and I just said "yeah, OK".
I agree with someone else: I would just tell them "I had bad caps on that board" or "defect which caused incompatibility with X" or whatever. They can screw off with this kind of licensing policy. Does Adobe, Quark, Corel, Inuit, or anyone else say "oh, you've made a significant change in your computer, you have to buy our software again?" As far as the OEM is significantly lower.. yeah, by about $30. That's not the same as telling someone to buy it again ($130 or so) CW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington (S) Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:47 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Motherboard upgrade gotcha At 11:18 AM 24/02/2006, Neil Davidson wrote: >Seems fair to me. OEM software is priced lower than a retail copy because it >has these conditions attached to it. If you don't want these licensing >conditions, they you can buy a retail copy. Come on. This is clearly a money grab, justify it as they will. T
