Windows XP License

[Guest]

I bought a new laptop with WIndows XP Home and recently
had to buy the XP Pro upgrade. Does my license allow me
to now put the home editon that came with my Laptop on my
older Win 98 desktop? Do I have the license to put the
pro on my desktop too?

Thanks

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

I bought a new laptop with WIndows XP Home and recently
had to buy the XP Pro upgrade. Does my license allow me
to now put the home editon that came with my Laptop on my
older Win 98 desktop? Do I have the license to put the
pro on my desktop too?

No your Windows XP Home Edition was preinstalled to your laptop and thus is
an OEM copy which may not be moved to any other machine .
Also since you used the upgrade edition of Window XP Professional you no
longer have a license to use Windows XP Home Edition on that laptop . The
upgrade is cheaper then the full version because your license to use the
previous operating system is subsumed into the license for Windows XP
Professional and thus is no more.
So you cannot use the Windows XP Home license on the desktop.
You also may not use the upgrade of Window XP Professional on the desktop
since all Windows opertaing system since Windows 3.1. are one license per
PC. So if you want to put Window XP on you desktop you will have to buy a
copy of that machine, either full retail or upgrade if the current operating
system on that machine qualifies.


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[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I bought a new laptop with WIndows XP Home and recently
had to buy the XP Pro upgrade. Does my license allow me
to now put the home editon that came with my Laptop on my
older Win 98 desktop? Do I have the license to put the
pro on my desktop too?

Thanks
.
no and no

 

[Alex Nichol]

I bought a new laptop with WIndows XP Home and recently
had to buy the XP Pro upgrade. Does my license allow me
to now put the home editon that came with my Laptop on my
older Win 98 desktop? Do I have the license to put the
pro on my desktop too?

No - as you bought a Pro upgrade, it requires the license of the
'qualifying product' in support. Also a copy of Home bought as part of
a machine (OEM) is licensed solely to that machine, and may not be
transferred at all, so you could not use it in support of the Pro on any
other machine

The Pro license is only for a single machine. - Desktop plus laptop is
an Office provision only. You could of course put the Home back on the
laptop, and put Pro on the desktop, with whatever other earlier Windows
there may be around as qualifying product