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Terry Blomberg

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I pasted a page from the Microsoft website.

If I understand this correctly the first copy of windows XP for a home owner
is 199.00 and additional licenses are only 4.95. Is this correct or is this
a missinterpetation of the page. I am a PC technician and have several PC's
running a variety of windows software and also my wife and kids have PC's
and laptops. We have a total of 11 PC's in the house and I was wondering if
a separate copy was needed for each or if this additional license is an
option with the retail version.

I realize this is a somewhat silly question from a technician point of view
but I recently found out about volume licensing for bussiness which for a
private consumer would get very expensive quickly. I would like to upgrade
some of the primary PC's in the house but do not want to spend a life's
savings doing it. Most of the PC's are older units used for testing and of
no real value but 3 of the PC's are newer and I use XP professional at work
and would like to run it at home also. The features XP include are great
from what I have seen if you have children who like to explore and change
settings seeing as this can be stopped.




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M

Malke

Terry said:
Question


I pasted a page from the Microsoft website.

If I understand this correctly the first copy of windows XP for a home
owner is 199.00 and additional licenses are only 4.95. Is this
correct or is this a missinterpetation of the page. I am a PC
technician and have

(major, major snippage)

Good $deity, man. You're a pc tech and you don't know how to post in
Usenet? What was the point of including all that crap when you could
have just put in a link? That aside, of course you don't get the extra
licenses for only $4.95 more. You get a small amount off the current
retail price. If you are building a lot of systems, it would definitely
be worth looking into their system builder volume discounts.

Malke
 
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Alex Nichol

Terry said:
If I understand this correctly the first copy of windows XP for a home owner
is 199.00 and additional licenses are only 4.95. Is this correct or is this
a missinterpetation of the page. I am a PC technician and have several PC's
running a variety of windows software and also my wife and kids have PC's
and laptops. We have a total of 11 PC's in the house and I was wondering if
a separate copy was needed for each or if this additional license is an
option with the retail version.

I don't know where you found that, but it is wrong. You have the
initial price right, but apart from Volume licenses the only discount on
additional copies is quite small, and you would probably do better at a
discount store. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/addlic.asp

and for volume licenses (which start at 5 machines, but become really
advantageous only at larger numbers) see

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/pricingvolume.asp
 
B

Bruce Chambers

Greetings --

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and copyright
laws, if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each
computer on which it is installed. The only way in which WinXP
licensing differs from that of earlier versions of Windows is that
Microsoft has finally added a copy protection and anti-theft
mechanism, Product Activation, to prevent (or at least make more
difficult) the sort of multiple installations you're asking about.

Additional Licenses for Windows XP Home Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/addlic.asp

Additional Licenses for Windows XP Professional
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/addlic.asp


Bruce Chambers

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