Windows Vista OEM Answers From Microsoft
Posted on January 29, 2007, under Development.
Last week OEM versions of Windows Vista started sowing up at online retailers like Newegg. These OEM version of Vista came with a price tag of almost half the orignal price. and some unknowns about product activation. Mark Hachman, from ExtremeTech has an article that gets to the root of these questions over at Yahoo News.
As for activation, Brown said users could expect a return to the familiar activation scenario. Windows Vista, like XP, contains an electronic list of the components within the PC, which it turns into a code, or hash. If a user adds or subtracts too many components, the hash will change enough that it will signal the need for another activation, which can be done either online or via telephone.
Vista, however, will apparently be a bit more tolerant of the DIY community: “Windows Vista is more intelligent and a bit more lenient than Windows XP around hardware tolerance,” Brown said. She referred questions to Microsoft’s Windows Activation Web page, which does not address Windows Vista.
I guess it is good to hear that Vista is more flexible with hardware changes, however for me it;s upsetting that it is really slow running in a VM machine. I know have to setup a new machine, just for Vista and do not get the great benefits of VM like snapshots and flexible hardware parameter changes. VM machines are very common for software developers, and I feel Microsoft should do a better job of supporting us.
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OnlineCrazyDeals on January 31, 2007
Vista is going to be a great operating system once everything else catches up. The speed is still a little slow, unless you have atleast a 1024mb RAM onboard, stick with XP.