Since day one in this skinning game we [skinners] have been 'evaluating software'....the stuff we are using is pretty consistently always in Alpha or Beta.....one way or another....
Be that as it may... or that may be the case, whichever, it still doesn't answer my license query. Made a few pirate and Medieval icons from photographic images I took, but I'm not exactly a skinner, either, so what could it be (I say) that I'm evaluating??
It's like this, ya see! My luck is so bad that if it were raining hookers I'd get washed down the gutter with a horny hunchback and a jar of vaseline, so yeah, I feel the need to validate/legitimise purchasing an 'evaluation only' license...otherwise I'm the unlucky bastard who doesn't have a plausible explantion when MS catches me by the short n' curlies. 
Amazing, I have an old P4 computer that barely runs COD2 and 2 laptops. You got enough parts to build 3 more PCs just sitting around. What the hell am I doing wrong? LOL
Maybe it's not what you're doing wrong, but me.... Like maybe I got all these spare parts cos I broke a lot of stuff and they're the left over good bits. 
Nah, while some of the parts are leftovers from previous upgrades to mine and the missus' PC's, I have become the extended family's repositry for old or unwanted puters, spare parts and cases, etc. To date I have built my son and daughter a rig each, my nephew one and my sister one, mostly from spare parts, though a couple of times we had to pick a bit of extra RAM, or sometimes a new graphics card was needed.
Yup, we pretty much recycle everything of use... furniture; electricals; household utensils; it all gets handed down/passed on to help out others in the extended family group.... sure beats buying new all the time, particularly in these hard economic times.
