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Originally Posted by ksuohio

That clause in the ELUA was redone and it now states that if you have a retail copy, it can be installed on only one computer at a time. There was a couple threads about a month ago in the OS forum about this.

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but doesn't the OS lockup and go trial if it's not activated? so in essence if you keep your pc offline for work use only with no net need it will go trial for not being activated, true or false.

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Originally Posted by vairox

but doesn't the OS lockup and go trial if it's not activated? so in essence if you keep your pc offline for work use only with no net need it will go trial for not being activated, true or false.

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I'm not sure what you are asking. Are you asking if it needs activated? Yes. There are other ways to active besides over the internet.

My point was the MS changed the EULA to state that the retail version of Vista can be moved from one computer to another, but can only be installed on one machine at a time. This is how the current licensing works for Windows XP, but MS changed the wording for Vista originally. After a couple blog sites drew attention to the change, MS changed it back.