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Consumer victory over Microsoft

Sometimes the consumer wins.

This is one of those times. Microsoft has given into consumer and industry pressure and has changed its licensing agreement for Vista, the operating system that will replace XP.

Reversing an earlier decision, the company said Monday that customers now may uninstall the OS from one machine and install it on another as many times as they want.

You can read about the background behind this consumer-friendly change of course here.

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