Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs 330
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Geek.com: "Microsoft has never really acknowledged or supported those among us who choose to build their own PCs. Windows licensing is usually offered in three forms: full retail product license, retail upgrade license, and OEM license. If you want to build your own machine at the moment, Microsoft expects you to buy a full retail copy of Windows. With Windows 8 that all changes and Microsoft has decided to actively support individuals who want to build their own machines or run Windows 8 as a virtual machine. That support comes in the form of a new license option called the Personal Use License for System Builder (PULSB). With PULSB, Microsoft is dumping the full retail license used in previous versions. Instead it is offering a version of Windows 8 to be installed as the main operating system on a single system meant for personal use, or in a virtual machine running on an existing PC (running any legal OS such as Windows 7, Mac OS X, or your favorite flavor of Linux)."
Re:Microsoft finally gets it (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! Here's an idea -- MS could bless WINE and sell each of the Linux users a license to run a full-on win32/64 library. Yeah!
Silly AC, only a religious organisation could bless wine. It'd have to be Apple...
Re:first (Score:5, Funny)
That's why the ladies don't call you back the next day.
Re:first (Score:5, Funny)
doesn't matter, had sex.
Re:first (Score:5, Funny)
doesn't matter, hand sex.
FTFY
Re:Wonderful? At What Cost? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm hereby offering my services to everyone with which I'm not related. I'll buy your home-built PC with an OEM license, paying you in net 30 terms, under the condition that you will buy the machine back at full cost if I'm at all unsatisfied.
If the cost to me (including shipping) is greater than $0, I'm unsatisfied, and I hereby return the machine to you. I accept your payment as an erasure of my debt to you.