Vista will allow reinstalls

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by The Roman Battle Mask (Making great use of my Employer's time.) on Thursday, 02-Nov-2006 17:06:29

The vista lisence has been changed, it will allow unlimited reinstalls not just one. Look on slashdot for the story.

Post 2 by frequency (the music man) on Thursday, 02-Nov-2006 17:45:47

about damn time! I didn't think MS could get away with that.

Post 3 by buk buk buk (move over school!) on Thursday, 02-Nov-2006 18:02:45

Really?

Post 4 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 03-Nov-2006 17:17:54

lol i said this would happen in the other vista topic.
To quite a big extent, the public really dictate what ms do whilst its in beta regarding the agreements.
Its still going to be shit though.

Post 5 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Friday, 03-Nov-2006 17:26:10

Sorry for being of topick but are the new windows going to be any better about accessibility?
Are they planning for example of having a built in screen reader like aple? Or maybe are they goinng to improove narrator? Are they going to have any new sapi5 voices?
If anyone knows it would be interesting.

Post 6 by bharding (Generic Zoner) on Sunday, 05-Nov-2006 23:16:49

Hmmm, wonder if it will still have activation? How would it detect the use on more than one system anyways, or have they just thrown in the towel on the whole one machine, a couple transfers deal.

Post 7 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 06-Nov-2006 17:05:31

I guess there'll be ways round it, just like the wga stuff. But, take a look at the least that it'll run on:

cpu: 800mhz, not that bad really if you think about it.
Ram:512mb, this is the least that it'll run on, so considering that they said that it will run on 64 before, its going to run rubbish on 512.
Hdd:40gb with atleast 15gb free space. Well i kno that most of us have upwords of 160 gig, but 40 gig taken up by the os?
It reckamends p3 1ghz with a gig of ram.