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| Windows 8 EULAs very different from previous incarnations |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-21 21:57:15 |
| With Windows 8 right around the corner, the usual game of reading the end-user license agreements and spotting the different versions is in full swing. Usually, this is a game of ridicule as Microsoft comes up with ever more convoluted version schemes and EULA terms. This time around, though, the company seems to be taking steps to make things easier, as Ed Bott reports. |
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| RE: Enterprise edition... |
| By BluenoseJake on 2012-08-22 13:43:34 |
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No, they did not remove the enterprise edition. http://windowsteamblog.com/windo... that link explains the editions of Windows 8, and at the bottom, specifically addresses your concerns about the Enterprise Edition. It took about 6 seconds to google that... |
 - Score: 4 |
| RE[2]: Simple All right |
| By WereCatf on 2012-08-22 14:00:28 |
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> If it goes against the law - it's void. To be precise: only the clauses that are in violation of existing laws are void, not the whole EULA, ie. the parts the are covered by e.g. copyright laws are still valid. Here in Finland marketing laws basically say that if you sell something like a shelf product then it is a shelf product, regardless of what the license or the box says, ie. "if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck." This also covers things like selling a used product: as long as you give all the needed materials to the new owner and remove all backups from your possession you're free to sell the item even if the EULA tried to prevent you from doing that. |
| - Score: 5 |
| I doubt I will buy it. |
| By jefro on 2012-08-22 15:39:23 |
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I felt kind of lucky to have bought some of the Windows 7 upgrades for $40 or so when they were offered. I failed that risk with windows ME. (that sucked) This windows 8 is just not productive. I'll keep xp or windows 7 until either I die or Windows 8 dies. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: Enterprise edition... |
| By Jack Burton on 2012-08-22 15:48:48 |
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Sorry, I read this the other day http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/s... http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-g... and then I read Windows 8 here and I thought about Windows 2012 Server. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: I doubt I will buy it. |
| By moondevil on 2012-08-22 17:12:40 |
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> This windows 8 is just not productive. I'll keep xp or windows 7 until either I die or Windows 8 dies. Microsoft can always shutdown the authentication servers... |
| - Score: 6 |
| Windows 7 instead |
| By Lennie on 2012-08-22 17:26:17 |
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Actually, for a business I recently specifically bought retail versions of Windows 7 instead of OEM. So that Windows 7 can more easily be transfered to newer/better hardware when the old hardware breaks. So they can still use it many years from now. I see no reason for them to run Windows 8 any time soon or in the long run for that matter. |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE[2]: I doubt I will buy it. |
| By darknexus on 2012-08-22 18:48:14 |
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> Microsoft can always shutdown the authentication servers... Sure they could, but then you'll just have people cracking it with programs such as Windows Loader (not all that different from how things stand now). Businesses with corporate licenses will likely be unaffected anyway as a proper vlk doesn't require activation at least for XP. What they could do that would have a much worse impact is shut down the update servers for those versions of Windows instead. Oops, probably shouldn't give them ideas. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[2]: Simple All right |
| By jboss1995 on 2012-08-22 19:22:10 |
| Do you know what it is in the US? Is the EULA fully enforceable in the US? |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE[3]: Simple All right |
| By jefro on 2012-08-22 19:34:48 |
| An eula could be very enforceable. Companies are required to comply with them. A common home user may not care. A company that could get sued or fined would care. |
| - Score: 1 |
| Why would companies care? |
| By leech on 2012-08-22 23:59:44 |
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I have to ask this. I mean why would they really care? I know of NO companies that are crazy enough to update all their workstations every Operating System release. We're just barely moving most of the workstations over to 7. Vista was a total crapshoot and we don't even support it for our clients. I don't see Windows 8 being all that used in the corporate environment, regardless of what Microsoft wants. Besides, as far as I know, the EULAs have NEVER stood up in court, anywhere. GPL has because it's a copyright rather than just a license. |
| - Score: 3 |
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