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Netflash: Microsoft confirms Windows 7 install trick is legal
eWeek - RSS Feeds: Microsoft Says No To Windows 7 Upgrade 'Hack'
Redmond Report: Windows 7 Upgrade 'Hacks' Not Legal, Microsoft Suggests
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@zepfhyr They make it rather clear that they are screwing you for THEIR own good. IE: http://bit.ly/bJMC0 9 days ago |
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Microsoft...still saying finding a way around their upgrade stupidity "might be illegal" --- http://bit.ly/4GSTT 17 days ago |
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Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know: http://bit.ly/4GSTT #Microsoft #Windows7 #Win7 30 days ago |
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 install trick is legal
Netflash —
Microsoft today confirmed that users can apply a workaround trick to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive as long as they toe the licensing line. In a blog post earlier this week, Eric Ligman, who works in Microsoft's worldwide partner group, took exception to stories that showed people how to use the less-expensive Windows 7 upgrade editions to install the new operating system on blank drives. Computerworld ...
Is Your Windows 7 Install Illegal?
Netflash —
Microsoft issued a friendly reminder in a blog post earlier this week that if you installed Windows 7 on a blank hard drive using an upgrade disc, your Windows installation is illegal. Well, maybe... but I'll get to that in a second. Redmond's post was a response to a host of blogs and other Web sites that explain how you can perform a clean install of the new OS on any hard drive using the Windows 7 upgrade disc instead of purchasing a full version of the new operating system. That's a tricky move since it will save you at least eighty bucks, but Microsoft ...
Microsoft Says No To Windows 7 Upgrade 'Hack'
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... From there, a number of paths exist for loading the upgrade onto a blank hard drive, and then using that as a basis for activating the Windows 7s full package product version. But those doing so will risk the wrath of Redmond. "When you purchase software, you are purchasing the rights to run the software according to the terms of the End User License Agreement (EULA) that comes with that software," Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead for Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, wrote in an Oct. 27 posting on the Microsoft SMB Community Blog . "When these posts and ...
Windows 7 Upgrade 'Hacks' Not Legal, Microsoft Suggests
Redmond Report —
... media. The published hacks elicited responses from Eric Ligman, a global partner experience lead at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group. Ligman admitted that the hacks were technically possible, but emphasized that they violated Microsoft's licensing restrictions. "Over the past several days there have been various posts…[showing] that a Windows 7 Upgrade disc can perform a 'clean' installation of Windows 7 on a blank drive from a technical perspective," Ligman wrote last week in a Microsoft small-to-medium business blog . "Of course, from the posts I saw, they often forgot ...
Windows 7 Upgrade Workaround a 'Hack'?
Doug Barney Blog —
... which could cut into Microsoft's Windows revenues, elicited a reaction from the company: The hack apparently can work, according to Microsoft, but the resulting installation is illegal per Microsoft's end user license agreement. The illegalness of this Windows 7 upgrade hack was emphasized by Eric Ligman, a global partner experience lead at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, in a Microsoft blog . A reader of that blog shot back, saying, "Why wouldn't Microsoft make a gesture of good faith by rewarding savvy computer users who can pull off the hack with this $80-$100 ...
