“Microsoft’s Vista is still months away from formal release, but the next version of Windows is already raising the hackles of many consumers,” Steven Musil reports for CNET News.
“Under changes to Microsoft’s licensing terms, buyers of retail copies of Vista will be able to transfer their software to a new machine only once. If they want to move their software a second time, they will have to buy a new copy of the operating system. In the past, those who bought a retail copy of Windows needed to uninstall it before moving it to another machine, but there was no limit to how many times this could be done,” Musil reports.
“‘How much longer will consumers allow Microsoft to bully them?’ one CNET News.com reader wrote in the TalkBack forum. ‘It is precisely because of actions like these that Microsoft products will be hacked more than ever,'” Musil reports.
Musil reports, “Security companies also have been crying foul over the new OS–and they might have been heard if only they had gotten into a meeting scheduled to field their complaints. Microsoft had set up such a meeting with security companies to discuss some of the changes it has promised to make to Windows Vista in response to competitive concerns. But the conference, which used Microsoft’s Live Meeting technology, crashed about 15 minutes after it started, and both Symantec and McAfee were unable to log back in.”
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