Re: LCD/TFT Screens

What? <eh@?.net> wrote:
John Lee wrote:
"clandestin_?cureuil" <user@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am puzzled. Why can't you continue to use the OS that you already have
if you purchase a new system? I use a Mac mostly with an LCD screen of
course, but calibrated, but I also have a PC, a new one that at the time
of purchase, I had loaded with XP-Pro on the basis that I already owned a
legal license to that software. From what I hear many people are opting
out of Vista. I actually read a report in the Canberra Times a few weeks
ago that said that Microsoft had extended the period that it would support
XP on new machines. Was that incorrrect?

Secret Squirrel

I would dearly like to do that but I understand that although you could use
your existing XP on a new machine you would no longer receive XP updates
(including security) from Microsoft. Each time you log on details of your
computer are checked and if there are any substantial changes then you get
black-listed. Thanks for suggestion though. John

This is not so. People often upgrade their hardware using the same
operating system. Your license is for the OS, not for the OS on one
system only. This computer I am using at the moment has been upgraded
three times since XP-Pro first came out. There is no such thing as an MS
blacklist, the most that will happen is that the auto-update will stop
working unless you call Microsoft and yell down the phone at them.

Where do you people get this nonsense?

Micros**t salesdroids on commission? :-)

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