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| Thread ID: 43079 | 2004-03-02 19:49:00 | PC Upgrade options - priorities | tbacon_nz (865) | Press F1 |
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| 219700 | 2004-03-07 01:10:00 | Meh...i could sell you a boxed oem copy of xp home and an audio cable and its 100 percent legal. | metla (154) | ||
| 219701 | 2004-03-07 11:26:00 | > You can't do that, OEM licences are shipped with the > computer, and are "legally locked" to the motherboard > on which they are installed. Not so! As far as Im aware, OEM = Origional Equipment Manufacturer. Basically its to be sold with hardware. As mentioned, an Audio cable (Or some say that an IDE Cable is the cheapest you can do) is enough to qualify. Basically its a cheaper lisence for Windows because its sold by the batch to pre-bundle with PC's... Usually.... > You can not legally shift an OEM licence to another > machine, regardless of the number of them on sale on > Trade-Me. All you buy is a worthless piece of paper > and install an illegal copy of the OS. Why not? I have.... From a Toshiba Laptop to a Compaq Presario. WinXP Pro OEM. Myself and my employer phoned up MS and they were happy to give us the relevant numbers to activate it! > Not that I'm particularly stringent in this area, but > for those of you who take owning an M$ licence > seriously it is rather important. I dont own any MS liscences and this house uses none of their software, so I couldnt really care less about it. OEM is legal though. Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 219702 | 2004-03-07 13:10:00 | I beg to differ. I rang MS about 2 weeks ago to explore this as I am in the process of replacing 6 machines at work all running W2K OEM. According to them, an OEM licence is legally locked to the machine it is sold with, you can change out any piece of hardware besides the motherboard. If you change the motherboard you will need to purchase a new licence. The gospel according to their phone people ~2 weeks ago. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 219703 | 2004-03-07 13:24:00 | > Meh...i could sell you a boxed oem copy of xp home > and an audio cable and its 100 percent legal. Technically you could... where would you like me to send the congratulatory award? The large majority of the time an OEM licence is sold with a preconfigured PC... a la Compaq/PC Company (RIP)/Dell etc etc |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 219704 | 2004-03-07 13:36:00 | > Meh...i could sell you a boxed oem copy of xp home > and an audio cable and its 100 percent legal. Technically you could... but the large majority of OEM licences ship with a new PC. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 219705 | 2004-03-07 13:37:00 | www.microsoft.com From this page: FACT OEM licenses for Microsoft operating system software are not transferable from one machine to another, even if the PC on which it was originally installed is no longer in use. The OEM license is tied to the original PC on which it was installed. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 219706 | 2004-03-21 06:58:00 | Just thought you all might like to know that my friend has gone for the XP home upgrade + more memory option. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Tony Bacon |
tbacon_nz (865) | ||
| 219707 | 2004-03-21 09:57:00 | > Just thought you all might like to know that my friend has gone for the XP home upgrade What?! Not Linux? ]:) :p :D > + more memory option . B-) Thanks for letting us know, Tony . :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
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