> 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)
Retail of XP Pro here is £250, OEM is £95. thats one hell of a difference. Adobe, Quark etc. don't give a damn about this, but then they don't sell OEM software to Joe Public, so no surprise there then.
