Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 15:54 UTC, submitted by CIozzio
A Microsoft executive sent out a snotty email chastising anyone who has been encouraging people to purchase the Vista upgrade and install it without owning a valid Windows license. People discovered long ago that the Vista upgrade, which costs half of what full license costs, will install on new hardware without verification of a previous install. Microsoft's Eric Ligman points out, to those people who weren't aware, that this is just as much a violation of the license as "borrowing" an install disk from a friend.
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2005-07-07
I am not stealing Vista. I use Linux and Mac OS X on my home computers and Windows XP at work.
If MS feels so strongly about preventing users from (ab)using upgrade licenses, they should just unify their prices like what OS X does. The argument on OS X goes is that because all Macs come with OS X, any retail version of OS X that you buy is going to be an "upgrade". In a similar vein, every PC you buy is going to come with some version of Windows. So why not reduce the retail price of Vista and get rid of the upgrade version?
In fact, the upgrade versions cost more than the OEM version that many places are selling. So why don't they just streamline the product line and merge the OEM/uypgrade/retail versions?