Microsoft is changing its OEM license. They now want you to buy Windows all over again if you change your motherboard.

.........Have they lost their bloody marbles? ......do they not understand it is this kind of attitude that makes people switch over to linux and the like and also what encourages piracy ...

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5373

I build and upgrade gaming PC's for friends and myself, so I am often adding RAM, or a new video card, and now with PCIe and new Duel Core CPU's, adding a new motherboard is becoming a more common option.
So this news is very disturbing. I have been using Knoppix 4.0.2 linux which I love, but you still need Windows XP for gaming.
Microsoft already has the monopoly on the OS market, with every new PC computer (other then Apple) running XP, so why should I have to pay for it again and again?

Well i suppose you dont,just dont tell them what your up to......

I dunno.......

this is just pathetic, bill is the richest man and Im sure microsoft has twice as much money as him, there just being greedy. whatever this is just gunna hurt them, this will make more people switch to mac and linux