{"id":194,"date":"2006-11-04T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=194"},"modified":"2006-11-04T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T14:44:24","slug":"microsoft-changes-vista-eula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/11\/04\/microsoft-changes-vista-eula\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft changes Vista EULA amid criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvistablog.com\/blogs\/windowsvista\/archive\/2006\/11\/02\/news-revision-to-windows-vista-retail-licensing-terms.aspx\">Windows Vista Team Blog : News: Revision to Windows Vista retail licensing terms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several reviews (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/columnists\/420?ref=rss\">SecurityFocus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/gripeline\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_vista_of_lice.html\">InfoWorld<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hexus.net\/content\/item.php?item=7075\">HEXUS<\/a> ) of the EULA for Microsoft&#8217;s forthcoming Vista OS have been so scathing as to cause MS to rethink their intent.  The company released a reworded version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/documents\/useterms\/Windows Vista_Home Basic_English_2cd69850-7680-4987-8b1e-59a3d405c074.pdf\">EULA<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvistablog.com\/blogs\/windowsvista\/\">Vista Team Blog<\/a> which drew a collective sigh of relief from the computer enthusiast community.  However, a number of issues still remain.  MS still restricts use of Vista within a virtual machine except on the $400 Ultimate edition.  It is also unclear how the various upgrade options will effect a users ability to transfer Vista to another machine.  Clearly MS needs to iron out some of these issues before Vista goes RTM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Vista Team Blog : News: Revision to Windows Vista retail licensing terms Several reviews (SecurityFocus, InfoWorld, HEXUS ) of the EULA for Microsoft&#8217;s forthcoming Vista OS have been so scathing as to cause MS to rethink their intent. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/11\/04\/microsoft-changes-vista-eula\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}