Vista To Prevent Copying .ISO Files to Hard Drives on Home Version

posted by soulxtc in windows // 781 days 14 minutes ago

Important Windows Vista Licensing Changes, and Ed Bott tells us about changes to the Windows Vista EULA. But that's not the whole story. Starting on Page 11, here is a synopsis of what I believe are the most far-reaching changes, as I have interpreted them:

* Home Basic
o Can't copy ISO to your hard drive
o Can't install to a network server
o You may share files, printers, etc with a maximum of 5 network devices
o You MAY NOT use Remote Desktop, only Remote Assistance
o You MAY NOT use in Virtual PC | Virtual Server |VMWare

* Home Premium
o Still can't copy ISO to your hard drive
o Still can't install to a network server
o Sharing for 10 network devices
o Still no Remote Desktop
o Still no virtual hardware
o 5 simultaneous Media Center Extender sessions (up from 3 in MCE 2005)

* Ultimate
o Can copy ISO to your hard drive
o Can install to a network server (I'm assuming for Terminal Server scenarios)
o Sharing for 10 network devices
o Can use Remote Desktop
o Can use in a virtualized environment, BUT
+ Can't use DRM-protected content if Vista Ultimate is the "guest" OS
+ Can't use BitLocker if Vista Ultimate is the "guest" OS
o 5 Media Center Extender sessions

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#1 Screw Vista!!

posted by MP3Pr0 780 days 18 hours 55 minutes ago
#2 you said it. I have not used Vista and this news does not inspire me to start using Vista.

posted by tsafa1 780 days 18 hours 5 minutes ago
#3 ISO of windows? or of my legit games that i want to run w/o a CD? im guessing the latter. FUCK YOU MS!

posted by Signa 780 days 16 hours 31 minutes ago
#4 and the countdown for crackers begins lol

posted by gumdrop ink 780 days 7 hours 15 minutes ago
#5 Its going to take a lot of cracking to make it worth while, but lets be honest unless there are some really vista only games, xp pro is fine. I use to only use win 2000 pro, only reason i changed to xp was for a couple games. I played with vista and i didnt see anything worth changing to it. gates is rich enough.

posted by VAMPYRE BLADE 780 days 35 minutes ago
#6 if you dont want the cripple ware ms is insulting people with perhaps try ubuntu or freespire linux these are regularly updated,totally free and you can use iso network servers,share as many printers,files etc as you like and copy anything you want and you can even copy and modify the software to boot see the links below

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://freespire.org/

posted by unknownpersonage 779 days 22 hours 36 minutes ago
#7 Of course considering that the above is nearly 2 years old it makes sense.

In my view it wasnt till SP1 that Vista was even worth looking at.

With proper amt of Ram & HD VISTA can be a good system.

But as compared to XP it is a definate hog.

But then I went from a P3 running XP at 800mhz (& 500gig HD) to a quadcore 2.8gmhz with added HD of 2000 GIG.

(reasons are many why I finally upgrqaded).

But then I plan to build a xp box that will be similar to above.

Btw, most of the negatives dont exist (at least anymore).

Though I agree about games, but then I never buy a pc with games in mind (I have game consoles for that).

Being a developer/programmer and power user I could care less if Vista had games though it will be used when & if available.

posted by Tulsaboyw 106 days 6 hours ago