Future versions of windows will have licensing too prohibitive for me to run it at home. Multiple versions? Yearly subscriptions? This is all too annoying, too expensive! Oh, and if you <a href="http://bink.nu/Article6247.bink">swap a motherboard, you better be ready to pull your wallet out for the OS, too</a>.
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Generally, you may upgrade or replace all of the hardware components on your computer and maintain the license for the original Microsoft OEM operating system software, with the exception of an upgrade or replacement of the motherboard. An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a "new personal computer." Microsoft OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from one computer to another.
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It is going to get even stranger in my line of work with a rumored six to eight different, new versions of server available, many of them subscription based. The components for these will also be extra, it is rumored. Cluster? Extra. Web services? Extra. SQL capability? Extra. Domain controller? Extra. File sharing? Extra.
I thought it was annoying enough that terminal services was so restrictive as it is.
It was nice when this was all simple, but it is quickly becoming rediculous. I don't want to come home one day to find that I turn on my computer and can't access anything until I pay for it.
MS can keep their new software.
03-02-2006, 09:55 AM
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