Tobias Besch said:Together with my recently bought new PC I received
a *German* Windows XP Home.
Is it possible and legal to install an *English* Windows XP Home
and activate it using the key I got when I bought my PC?
Tobias said:Hi!
Together with my recently bought new PC I received
a *German* Windows XP Home.
Is it possible and legal to install an *English* Windows XP Home
and activate it using the key I got when I bought my PC?
kurttrail said:The English Version probably won't except the German Product Key.
Basically, the people that told you a definitive "No" are lying, as
they don't know it for a fact that they can prove,
Together with my recently bought new PC I received
a *German* Windows XP Home.
Is it possible and legal to install an *English* Windows XP Home
and activate it using the key I got when I bought my PC?
R. C. White said:Hi, Tobias.
Your statement is ambiguous. :>(
Was your German WinXP pre-installed on the computer, or did you receive it
as a retail CD-ROM for installation after purchase? We assume that it was
pre-installed, but the other interpretation is possible.
If you buy an English version of the retail WinXP package, you should be
able to install it on your computer, but you will use the Product Key from
your retail CD, not the key that came with your PC.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
Detlev said:It won't *accept* the German Product Key (and vice versa). You cannot
use or transfer the Product Key from one language version to another.
Why don't you try it out.
kurttrail said:I haven't tried it myself, so I don't know that for a fact, so I said
it as a probably. Have you tried it yourself,
I don't need to sue them to exercise my "fair use" rights to my copies
of software. MS has to sue me to stop me, if they believe my use
violates their legally unsubstantiated interpretation of the EULA terms.
Detlev said:Sure, using different WinXP language versions including English and
German. Otherwise, I wouldn't post to this thread. Note that this is
not a chat room.
The OP's question was "Bool AND". If one condition ("possible")
doesn't apply, the other condition ("legal") doesn't matter.
Note
that foreign law which may apply and the EULA are not subject to be
discussed in international newsgroups. Unless you're an international
lawyer and focussed on this field, the blind man is talking about the
color.
kurttrail said:I've been posting here longer than you, so I know better than you what
this is and isn't.
Aha.
And you didn't totally answer me, Have you tried to install one
language version with another language version key.
Who are you to say that?! The OP wouldn't have ask it if it didn't
matter. This is not a search engine query.
And I didn't answer whether it was legal or not, only that you morons
were lying with your definitive answers. As you say, the laws where
the OP lives may be different. So liar, please keep on trying to spin
your lie of "Nope."
Detlev said:Yes. What's so hard to understand.
The question if this is legal can be answered by a lawyer only. It's
no good idea trying to clarify legal matters with the man on the
street or in public newsgroups.
ROTFL! Running out of factual arguments?
kurttrail said:Yet you answered a definitive "Nope," to the OP's question.
Detlev said:Sure, and that answer is absolutely correct.
It's like trying to pass
two locked gates. Even if the OP has the key for one of them ("legal
issue") and that's not for sure, he doesn't have the key for the other
gate ("Product Key"). So the answer to the question if he can pass
both gates (possible and legal) is "Nope". Has something to do with
"Logic" and trying to avoid any false hope that the OP can realize
his project.
Time for EOD from my side.
kurttrail said:Yes, it is time for you to run away.
Detlev said:Dream on, troll.
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