Vista EULA is oppressive

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420

It seems that Microsoft is now locking down benchmarking from a Vista machine. That means that any indepedent reviewer will get his ass handed to him if they try to publish unwanted Microsoft results...

Too bad for Microsoft that EULAs are not enforcable.

Just like you may not measure the speed of .net - which effectively means that MS can sue anyone who demonstrates that mono or dotgnu are faster than their JIT compiler - at least with numbers...

Was there any doubt?

Vista will be THE new lockin for Microsoft. It is what they were planning on since creating it.

Well, ms has clarified that they never intended the eula to say that, and that although you may have to call to get another activation code, you can install it as many times as you like as long as it's on one machine at a time.

Yeah, that's called reaction from the negative press that they got.

"Never ment it like that." That means, "damn, we didn't get away with it!"

Also known as the "O'Snap, son" clause.
But really, who reads/follows the EULA anyways?