Vista retail licensing. Microsoft backs down.

This is slightly off topic, and no doubt not really programming related, more programmer related.

Vista retail licensing has been a well discussed topic over the last few weeks. In short for someone like me it went like this:
As long as I only upgrade my machine hardware once in the years that I want to use Vista as my OS, I'm fine. Once I upgrade a 2nd time though I need to buy a new version of Vista. To me this is scarey, and means I'd really want to make sure the next hardware upgrade would be a good one, as I'm not that happy with outlaying hundreds of dollars after only owning Vista for a couple of years.

BUT NOT ANY MORE!!!!!

Microsoft have officially backed down and will now allow a single user to upgrade their hardware as much as they like. For me that takes the expected usage from 2-3 years, to whenever a better OS worth buying comes out, as I'm more than happy with my core hardware like the case, and will most likely just upgrade components as mine get out of date.

Take a look at the official blog about this:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/02/news-revision-to-windows-vista-retail-licensing-terms.aspx

Very good news from Microsoft, thanks for listening to the 5-10% of people who would actually care about this change of licensing.