Licensing for Windows XP Professional on a netbook

[Red Rat]

Does anyone know if, under an Enterprise agreement, you are licensed to
install Windows XP Professional (instead of Home Edition) on a Netbook?

Thanks

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:22:01 AM, and on a
whim, Red Rat pounded out on the keyboard:

Does anyone know if, under an Enterprise agreement, you are licensed to
install Windows XP Professional (instead of Home Edition) on a Netbook?

Thanks

A "laptot" is the same as any other computer using VL, so the answer is yes.


Terry R.

 

[John Dearing]

The date and time was Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:22:01 AM, and on a
whim, Red Rat pounded out on the keyboard:


A "laptop" is the same as any other computer using VL, so the answer is
yes.

One last caveat. The typical Enterprise Agreement (Volume License)
requires that there be an initial, qualifying OS license from the
manufacturer on that machine. That is, you can't buy machines without an
OS and then legally install the Volume License Edition on the bare hard
drive.

The Volume License Edition is actually considered an "upgrade".

This will of course depend on exactly what agreement you have, but the
above is typical.

So, if the Netbook has Linux on it and you're planning to replace Linux
with WinXP VLE then you'd be mis-licensing WinXP.

John