Re: XP / Office licensing


"Conor" <conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <3mr6p0F17umemU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gaz says...
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>> If the OEM agreement is in doubt now, what is to stop MS from tightening
>> up
>> the agreement, and tieing the oem product key to a specific motherboard.
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> THe fact people will:
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> 1) Stick with the older version of Windows as many have done.
> 2) Jump to Linux. Or MAC OSX x86.

Or 3) buy a retail licence for Windows, like I have done and will do again
when Vista is released



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