Changes to Vista licensing

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/10/26/Microsoft_clarifies_Vista_activation_to_bit-tech/

In short, 10 activations now. Activations not triggered unless you change hard drive AND one major component. This allows enthusiasts to constantly swap out cpus, memory, etc... Making an image that's already activated also helps.

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endersftd

Thank goodness! Although I hate the annoyances that activation causes, if we must have activation, at least let it be lenient. *phew!*

bighornsheep

icroyal wrote:

Making an image that's already activated also helps.

This was the common workaround since the early XP days. This is also seen with OEM manufacturers.

But this seems to be good news. *waits for Vista*

deneb829

I was at a technet event today. The guy from MS said that volume licensing will require activiation for vista. The activiation will be done at the client site (I am assuming from a license server). He also said that the client is going to be responsible for their own volume licensing - meaning if MS finds your Volume License number on 1000 pirated copies of Vista, they are going to charge you for them. Pretty scary when you think about it, because any of your users could just run belarc and get that number.