Vista doesn’t allow cloning, an activation horror story
We’ve all heard the stories and even called them rumors at some points but it’s not just stories and rumors, these situations are real, very real, almost too real. Many have complained about the new Vista licensing scheme, I’m not going to defend it but until today my thoughts were “how bad could it be?†It’s bad, it’s real bad.
Microsoft got the brilliant idea that any copy of Vista can only be transferred once provided it is uninstalled from the old system and there is no way to deactivate your serial key so that’s a strike. I don’t know exactly what Microsoft considers to be a “transfer†but the system is either flawed, didn’t apply to my situation or did I say flawed?
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