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Originally Posted by VydorScope
It actually was correct, but since this thread started and since that article came out MS changed their license. Whether it would have held water in Australia I can not say, but it was perfectly legal here in US. Either way, this is an old thread and MS already reversed positions on it.
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Now you can be caught up to old news.  |
Yes sure. As I did this before the dates mentioned and as Microsoft themselves have never made this claim I still say beat-up.
When asked whether a license could be transferred to another machine if the original rig was destroyed, lost or stolen, Microsoft replied with a frosty, "No comment."
This is NOT a statement supporting the beat-up from Microsoft. Is it?
It is a magazine playing silly buggers.
Microsoft has never refused to transfer the licence - regardless of the number of "blogs" claiming that they will, might, or would. If you want to know about Microsoft policy look to Microsoft, not people blogging about Microsoft, or magazines who source their "data" from such bloggers.