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Microsoft listens and changes Vista licensing

Monday, November 6th, 2006

So Microsoft has listened to the uproar about its Vista licensing and has changed at least one major part:

Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times that retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista license to a different computer.

That is good news however there is still some way to go before the licensing for Vista is good and fair IMO.

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Music on Amazon S3

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I just backed up the 5.5gig of my music collection to my Amazon S3 account using S3Fox Organiser. It was largely a painless process except for any song that had a # character in its name. Not sure why S3 won’t accept that but a simple rename sorted it.

I especially liked how the transfers are atomic. If for some reason a file failed half-way then it wouldn’t leave a half-uploaded file on S3. This made transfering 5.5gig painless with no worrying about what was and wasn’t uploaded properly.

Total cost? The initial 5.5gig transfer will cost me about one buck ten cents. From there on it will cost just under a dollar per month. Fantastic!

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