Re: Giving up on Vista
MJG, thanks for your notes.I guess I'm a little in the dark about how "software renting" as opposed to "ownership" means that it's okay for Vista to refuse to run a perfectly legal copy of, for example, Civilization III.It was once installed on another machine, true. But that machine died, thus necessitating my purchase of a new machine. The software is no longer installed on that machine, at least as far as I can tell, since the XP OS has been reinstalled.So why would my "rental" of Civ III no longer apply to this new machine?If I bought a new copy of Civ III, would that run on Vista do you think?What about my Genealogy software? Turbotax? Etc?I just don't see how Vista helps me out at all. I think it is built only to help Microsoft. Just think of all the people who have unwittingly bought Vista because they didn't know they had a choice, and then have purchased XP to install . . . thus giving to MS twice. (And I don't mean Jerry's Kids.)Re-reading this note, I think I sound testy, but that wasn't my intent. I do feel pressure to post this before the machine freezes up again . . . Herring405
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MJG, thanks for your notes.I guess I'm a little in the dark about how "software renting" as opposed to "ownership" means that it's okay for Vista to refuse to run a perfectly legal copy of, for example, Civilization III.It was once installed on another machine, true. But that machine died, thus necessitating my purchase of a new machine. The software is no longer installed on that machine, at least as far as I can tell, since the XP OS has been reinstalled.So why would my "rental" of Civ III no longer apply to this new machine?If I bought a new copy of Civ III, would that run on Vista do you think?What about my Genealogy software? Turbotax? Etc?I just don't see how Vista helps me out at all. I think it is built only to help Microsoft. Just think of all the people who have unwittingly bought Vista because they didn't know they had a choice, and then have purchased XP to install . . . thus giving to MS twice. (And I don't mean Jerry's Kids.)Re-reading this note, I think I sound testy, but that wasn't my intent. I do feel pressure to post this before the machine freezes up again . . . Herring405
