It may be months before Windows Vista, the long-anticipated upgrade of Microsoft’s PC operating platform, becomes widely available, but the company is already taking heat for building in technology that limits its transferability. Users will be able to transfer Vista from the first PC installation to a different machine only once. Earlier versions of the operating system, including Windows XP, gave users more freedom to transfer their preloaded software to other machines once the original PC was no longer in use.
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Microsoft’s Vista to Include Tighter Transfer Restrictions
Posted by: Keith Regan October 17, 2006 02:07 PMIt may be months before Windows Vista, the long-anticipated upgrade of Microsoft’s PC operating platform, becomes widely available, but the company is already taking heat for building in technology that limits its transferability. Users will be able to transfer Vista from the first PC installation to a different machine only once. Earlier versions of the operating system, including Windows XP, gave users more freedom to transfer their preloaded software to other machines once the original PC was no longer in use.