[RockinRight]

I personally find the limited transfers and the banned VM parts of the license especially onerous. There are any number of reasons a transfer may be needed (replaced components, upgrades, etc.) and the chances of a false positive are just too good, IMHO.

Apparently one is not allowed to buy a new computer according to MicroSoft.

[MarkL]

I personally find the limited transfers and the banned VM parts of the license especially onerous. There are any number of reasons a transfer may be needed (replaced components, upgrades, etc.) and the chances of a false positive are just too good, IMHO.

Apparently one is not allowed to buy a new computer according to MicroSoft.

More importantly, I wonder if a fresh install on the same hardware counts as a "transfer?" After all, it's been my experience that for optimum performance, you really need to do a fresh load of Windows about once a year or every 18 months. And then there are those computers which are hijacked and infested so thouroughly that it's much simpler and less time consuming to just wipe the system and reload.

Mark