I would expect a lot of flak to come from many quarters now that the Vista’s explicit limitation on transferring only once to another machine has been made known. You can only expect this to come from Microsoft as a means to keep the dough rolling in…They’ve not had a good year and with so many legal fees to pay for their battle in Europe, I’m sure they will continue to squeeze every penny out of Windows users. Koroush Ghazi also proposes that at least 3 transfers be enabled instead of one. But for tweakers like me, 5 would be a nicer number.

One more note. Paying $399 for Vista Ultimateis pittance for MS but its a lot of money for normal hard working folks like us.

A frustrated opinion :

My name is Koroush Ghazi, and I run the site TweakGuides.com. As you can probably guess by the site’s name, I like to tweak and tinker with hardware and software. I’m what you might call a ‘PC enthusiast’: one of those guys who builds his own PC, regularly upgrading it to keep up with the demands of modern gaming. When Paul asked me to write a reply to his Licensing Changes to Vista article I jumped at the chance, given that this issue really affects guys like me. I know from the emails I’ve received, and from comments I’ve read by other enthusiasts across the Net that Vista’s explicit limitation on transferring only once to another machine in particular has caused genuine frustration, confusion and anger. I’m here to try to put across the enthusiast’s point of view, something which both Paul’s original article and Microsoft may have lost sight of.