Lockergnome is reporting that:
“Microsoft recently made changes to the license agreement. A new motherboard is now apparently the equal of a new computer, and if you upgrade it you need to purchase a new Windows license. Microsoft’s new policy states: An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a “new personal computer” to which Microsoft OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or replaced for reasons other than a defect, then a new computer has been created and the license of new operating system software is required.”
This makes me more intent of gitting off the Microsoft upgrade train. If the w95-w98-wme-w2k-wxp drill has taught me anything, then it is that you can NOT put new microsoft operating systems on old hardware.
No, my strategic direction is Linux and Open Source.
It’s cold out here in the real world, but microsoft is just to “expensive” in several dimensions.
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