Digital Home Thoughts - News & Reviews for the Digital Home

The above screen shot was taken yesterday when I fired up Photoshop Elements 8 [affiliate] on my media editing computer. I was surprised to see this warning about the serial number conflict, because I tend to install most of my software on two or three of my computers and most software developers don't put heavy-handed license activation on their consumer-level products (unlike Photoshop for instance). I think most software (other than operating systems of course) licensing should be on a per-user basis rather than a per-computer basis, so I really appreciate software developers that allow for two or three installs right in the EULA, and when they don't use activation - mostly because activation tends to be fraught with problems. Read more...