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Craig
I am Looking to buy windows xp and have seen an oem
version, will it work or would i be better buying proper
version?
version, will it work or would i be better buying proper
version?
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kurttrail
Willit said:Reasons to get OEM
----Half The Price
Only verses the full Retail of XP Pro.
----No reason to up-grade over other installions
In other words, OEM won't do upgrades of previous versions.
----can be transfered to what ever you want
Not according to MS. OEM can only be tranfered as part of the entire
computer it was first installed on.
----MS support sux's anyway
I think you're being too kind!
----The hardware you have to buy could be a screw
Correct.
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Ken Blake
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It will work, and there isn't necessarily anything "improper"
about it. However it has the following disadvantages as compared
with a retail version:
1. Its license ties it permanently to the first computer it's
installed on. It can never be moved to another computer, sold, or
given away.
2. It can only do a clean installation, not an upgrade.
3. Microsoft provides no support for OEM versions. You have to
get any needed support from your OEM, and that may range anywhere
between good and non-existent.
If you can live with those disadvantages, it can be a good buy.
However, if you own a previous version, you qualify for the
upgrade version, which has none of those disadvantages, and is
around the same price. I would choose an upgrade version over an
OEM one.
Craig said:I am Looking to buy windows xp and have seen an oem
version, will it work or would i be better buying proper
version?
It will work, and there isn't necessarily anything "improper"
about it. However it has the following disadvantages as compared
with a retail version:
1. Its license ties it permanently to the first computer it's
installed on. It can never be moved to another computer, sold, or
given away.
2. It can only do a clean installation, not an upgrade.
3. Microsoft provides no support for OEM versions. You have to
get any needed support from your OEM, and that may range anywhere
between good and non-existent.
If you can live with those disadvantages, it can be a good buy.
However, if you own a previous version, you qualify for the
upgrade version, which has none of those disadvantages, and is
around the same price. I would choose an upgrade version over an
OEM one.
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Alex Nichol
Craig said:I am Looking to buy windows xp and have seen an oem
version, will it work or would i be better buying proper
version?
It has limitations:
It will *only* do a clean install - that can be troublesome if you want
to do a repair reinstall of the system, let alone an upgrade of a
present older system
It may well leave out 'value added' items - the only one likely to
matter is the Backup on an XP Home Edition
It ia licensed solely to the hardware where it is originally installed.
You certainly cannot transfer it ever to a later machine, and it is
unclear just how far you can go in successive upgrades of hardware
- probably only to the extent set out as constituting 'substantially the
same' hardware when the system boots up and checks. See more on what
that level is at www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
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sipowtiz_00
OEM versions of Windows XP:
-- cannot upgrade over an existing Windows installation
WRONG. I've done it.
-- cannot be transferred to a different computer in the future
Wrong. I've done it.
-- the license cannot be sold or transferred to another user
Wrong. I've done it.
TRUE. I bought a power spliter that cost $1.98. My was that expensive.-- are not eligible for free Microsoft technical support
-- must be purchase with some type of computer hardware
Andrew
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Lester Horwinkle
Funny, but true.
WRONG. I've done it.OEM versions of Windows XP:
-- cannot upgrade over an existing Windows installation
Wrong. I've done it.-- cannot be transferred to a different computer in the future
Wrong. I've done it.-- the license cannot be sold or transferred to another user
TRUE. I bought a power spliter that cost $1.98. My was that expensive.-- are not eligible for free Microsoft technical support
-- must be purchase with some type of computer hardware
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sipowtiz_00
It ia licensed solely to the hardware where it is originally installed.
I think it is licensed to the hardware it was sold with, not to that
it was installed to. So as long as I keep using the power splitter I
bought with it I am in compliance. Not that M$ really cares about what
I do with it.
Andrew
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Michael Stevens
I think it is licensed to the hardware it was sold with, not to that
it was installed to. So as long as I keep using the power splitter I
bought with it I am in compliance. Not that M$ really cares about what
I do with it.
Andrew
Actually that is not what Microsoft says.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
OEM clarification.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/oemeula.htm
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Alex Nichol
I think it is licensed to the hardware it was sold with, not to that
it was installed to. So as long as I keep using the power splitter I
bought with it I am in compliance. Not that M$ really cares about what
I do with it.
I would agree with you in that that is the way I would read the wording
(though that would mean that if you lost the component you would need to
buy a new copy). But it is not the interpretation that Microsoft puts
on it.
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Bruce Chambers
Greetings --
Not so. The OEM EULA makes it quite clear that the OEM license,
while it can be purchased with just about any hardware component,
becomes bound to the first computer on which it is installed.
Bruce Chambers
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Not so. The OEM EULA makes it quite clear that the OEM license,
while it can be purchased with just about any hardware component,
becomes bound to the first computer on which it is installed.
Bruce Chambers
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Alex Nichol
Bruce said:Not so. The OEM EULA makes it quite clear that the OEM license,
while it can be purchased with just about any hardware component,
becomes bound to the first computer on which it is installed.
Actually, Bruce, it does no such thing to me. It defines the hardware,
when the software is purchased with a hardware component, as distinct
from the computer. And then says that the license is to the computer
system with which the hardware *operates* (if the hardware is such a
component). Note 'operates' unqualified - not 'on which the hardware
*first* operates'. But this of course would mean that if you buy with
say a video card and replace the card, you have to buy a new copy of the
system -
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kurttrail
Alex said:Actually, Bruce, it does no such thing to me. It defines the
hardware, when the software is purchased with a hardware component,
as distinct from the computer. And then says that the license is to
the computer system with which the hardware *operates* (if the
hardware is such a component). Note 'operates' unqualified - not 'on
which the hardware *first* operates'. But this of course would mean
that if you buy with say a video card and replace the card, you have
to buy a new copy of the system -
SP1 OEM EULA wording has changed. What Bruce says is basically right
for SP1 OEM XP copies of Windows XP, if you believe that MS's EULA usage
terms are binding on private anonymous individuals for non-commercial
uses.
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