Re: Where to get cheap XP Home?
- From: John Jordan <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:15:24 +0100
/Tx2 wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:51:50 +0100 JoeJoe
from the village of no@xxxxxxxx
felt we might be interested in the following...
A friend is looking to upgrade from win 98 to XP Home.
Where would one go to get a cheap copy? It needs to be genuine... Don't care about SP2 as he has broadband and can download it.
Would this one do? http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/114048
Not 'officially', no.
It's an OEM edition that should be supplied with qualifying components, i.e. a mainboard.
Install it on your 'friends' PC, and it would contravene the OEM licence.
If you care about the letter of the license, it is still possible to do this legally. Any non-peripheral hardware component counts, as long as it will be an integral part of the PC on which the software is installed. There is no requirement that the rest of the machine is new.
The person who purchases and installs the software must be a "System builder". This is defined as "an original equipment manufacturer, or an assembler, reassembler, or installer of software on computer systems". As you can see, anyone on this group ought to qualify.
The system builder must also attach the COA to the fully assembled computer system case in an easily accessible location, and provide their support phone number in the end-user documentation.
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John Jordan
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