installing win xp over win 95

[kathy]

i have a new computer with windows xp home edition and i
want to install my copy of windows xp onto my older
windows 95 computer is this possible,and how do i get
copyright permission

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
i have a new computer with windows xp home edition and i
want to install my copy of windows xp onto my older
windows 95 computer is this possible,and how do i get
copyright permission

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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Kathy;
You can not install the same license from the new computer on the
older computer.
One license, one computer, the way it has always been with all
Microsoft consumer OSs since at least Windows 95.

If you want Windows XP on the second computer, you need to buy Windows
XP for the second computer.

Also a computer old enough to have Windows 95, is probably to old and
weak for Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/default.asp

 

[EVERY1 ELSE IS WRONG]

Actually, if you are lucky you can install it. There is
nothing in the EULA stopping you. You are technically
allowed to install on copy on your home desktop and one
on a portable, ie laptop, and I know that your new com is
a laptop and the win 95 comp is ur desktop right? then
you can do it, the only thing stopping you is thespecs on
the old comp. Besides, by right, the only way ms could
know if you are using both on a desktop was if they had
snoopers installed, which they prob do, which would be
illegal,but een at that they have no way of knowing if
you are re-installing the same os on the same comp or if
u uninstalled it off the new comp to put it on the old.
So there are a bunch of loop holes in this EULA. NUKE
this if you want, but I have only stated the truth. Some
people just read the EULA to verbatum and don't look for
the loop holes that are obvious and others just follow
the drool of "what is right" from MS. there are a lot of
little facts if you guys actually read the EULA, try it
some time b4 you go off spouting your opinions about "
NO! you can't do that, here is my proof!!"

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Take your own advice and learn.
Read the EULA.
There is nothing in Windows XP EULA about installing on a Desktop and
a portable.
You may be confusing Office EULA.
Some versions of Office allow installing on a desktop and portable
used by the same person.

Most of the rest you write is encouraging others to unethical and
illegal activity.
As you suggest, there is no way for Microsoft to discover since
Microsoft will trust you when you call.
It is apparently not beyond you to lie.
What else will you do at other peoples expense?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You don't. You buy a separate, retail license.

Bruce Chambers

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