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Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade 641

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 30, 2006 @04:24PM from the how-very-generous-of-you dept.

fiorenza writes "Ars Technica spoke with Microsoft concerning the controversial changes in Windows Vista's licensing, and they have learned that Vista will permit one 'significant' hardware change before requiring users to either appeal to Microsoft support or purchase another license. Automatic re-activation online will fail after one use. Microsoft is using a new algorithm to monitor hardware changes and enforce licensing compliance, and the company says that it is more forgiving now than it was with Windows XP."

Comment Re:How to solve these problems. (Score 1) 272

by PapiAlDente on Friday April 29, 2005 @11:53AM (#12384212) Attached to: Spitzer Sues Intermix Media for Bundling Spyware

"You wiped a computer because of spyware?"

Isn't the standard procedure for fixing a compromised box (windows or *nix) reinstalling and restoring from backups?

And you think safe mode will save you? Assuming the box was compromised as root (or Administrator), ANYTHING on the box could have been modified...how are you going to use safe mode to replace a spyware-modified kernel (for example: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/18/192 0244&tid=201&tid=218)

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