>>Vista's EULA, if the press is to be believed, will make me pay more money more often to Microsoft, because (apparently) buried in the fine print is the fact that it is only to be used on the system for which it was purchased and its single successor.
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>Do you know this for a fact? Are you looking at the OEM version of the software? I chat with our tech a lot about Vista, and we have talked about the licensing before, and I think I even remember bringing this up to him, and he said it wasn't true.

No I don't. That's why I said "if the press is to be believed" < s >

By the same token, I suspect many 'techs' couldn't care less and wouldn't worry about such provisions.