When a motherboard replacement became a new computer · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave describes Microsoft’s newly explicit position that replacing a working motherboard could create a new personal computer for OEM Windows licensing, preventing reuse of the manufacturer supplied operating system. He notes that recovery discs had already enforced similar limits through BIOS checks, turning a hardware upgrade into a software licensing cost.
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Proposed recording date: 2006-02-18. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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