I don't think you have to spend another $300 to move XP to another machine. I think you have to tell MS that you are moving it to another peice of hardware (or significantly upgrading the hardware) and they will deactivate the old hardware profile and reactivate the new profile -- for free. You can do this either via phone or the internet.
I'm not sure what constitutes a major hardware upgrade but my guess would be a mobo and/or cpu change. I don't think the common user even touches this part of their computer, and if you are upgrading these peices you typically have to reinstall your OS anyway... Not to be siding with MS but I think there is a lot of exaggerated hype around the XP activation. We have to install it here for testing as well... It appears no worse than how MusicMatch, CRT, or ACDSEE works. You'll probably start to see more "shareware" and other software use this activation scheme -- I mean why not, the internet will become ubiquitos and it makes it easy on the software developer. I think the real question is the licensing scheme. Even though I hate how MusicMatch takes over your associations they do allow you to run MusicMatch on 3 machines using one license.... I think that's pretty fair. I think XP should be allowed to run on 3 to 5 machines on a single license. This would be suitable for freelance developers and families. It'll be interesting to see how this whole thing goes... will the MS users and AOL users allow those two corporation to effectively OWN the internet through sheer laziness and critical mass. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitchell, Edmund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:42 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary > > > Sad but true. > > At work, I had to install XP to test my software, and I was > shaking my head > that after you install XP, you have 30 days to 'activate' it with M$. > Fail to do so, and the software locks up. > Do so, and that 300$ OS is then tied to that machine - > legally, even if that > machine breaks, or if you just upgrade to another machine, > you have to give > M$ another 300$ for another copy. > > Our 233 Mhz, 64 MB test box can _barely_ budge under the load > of XP. What a > pile. > > Edmund > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:12 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary > > > > > > > > http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48011,00.html > > -- > > ��������Tom Brinkman � � � � � � � � Galveston Bay, USA > > chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban > > > > > >
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