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>That seems bizarre, Sergey - aren't they aware of:
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>1) The difficulty of application version-transitioning?
>2) Economic implications - Maybe this tactic will discourage MS clients from upgrading?

They do now, Bruce < s >. They don't seem to have "beta'ed" this very well.

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>Basically, this MS EULA seems fine for an OS, but quite impractical for development tools, where many of us must do simultaneous support for 2 app versions, for at least a brief window of time during a roll-out period.

Right, and many for much longer, what with obsinate clients and all.
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>Of course, I have enough test machines to cover myself on this EULA, but not everyone out there does?

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