Windows Vista’s New Spin On Licensing

WE’VE HEARD ALL MANNER of tinfoil hattery about Windows Vista’s schemes for copy protection, which have prompted the usual round of threats from the usual quarters about how Vista will usher in an OS apocalypse and techies will migrate en masse to Linux. The more realistic types are mostly talking about simply staying camped out with Windows XP for the time being while eying the MacOS world with some curiosity. I’m not onboard with the more paranoid visions of the Vista future, but I do think the uneasiness about Microsoft’s plans for Vista has some warrant.

“Windows” and “activation” are not two words I like to put together since it usually results in something far less than fun. It’s hard to tell at this point whether or not Vista will be as huge of a pain in the rear as XP was, but at least Microsoft have taken a lot more into consideration this time around. Whether or not that means less stress for us is still yet to be seen.

Source: Tech Report