Murdoch - 5:07 pm on Oct 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

I don't understand. Why does Microsoft care which machine the OS is on as long as there is only one copy of it on a machine at any time? I have Adobe Photoshop and from time to time I need to transfer it from work to home in order to do my job over the weekend. That's not piracy, it's portability.

I think this is pretty dumb on Microsoft's part. Wasn't online activation enough of a failsafe to prevent piracy? Now all they are doing is is kicking themselves in the face and they will be sitting on their hands when the customer service calls start coming in about how their software keeps crashing (which the first shipment ALWAYS does) and how the users can't reinstall it anymore.

Dumb, dumb, dumb. They better hire some more call center people.