ME to XP on 3 pc's

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If you cannot afford multiple operating systems, how can you
afford multiple PCs?

Bruce Chambers

--
Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

 

[Ron Martell]

Ya but they don't really know either. Does anyone have a copy of the 3.1
eula? Or the 1.0 eula if there was one? Probably not. I'm just trying to
make the point that people need to stop complaining about why they can't
install xp on multiple computers. Windows licensing has always been that
way, since the dawn of time. ) Whether it's 10 years or 20 years, doesn't
really matter. Complaining about does no good. Either live with it or get a
pirate copy, but please stop complaining about this supposable "new" feature
in xp. There's absolutly no reason for anyone to get frustrated at this. I
hate red lights, they slow me down, but I since learned complaining about
themand getting frustrated does nothing. I now deal with them or go thru
them. ) That's the point I was trying to make.

Up to and including Windows 3.0 it was considered an "application" and
therefore the EULA allowed for installation on 2 computers provided
the same person was the primary user of both machines. That same
general principle still applies to the retail versions of Microsoft
Office.

Starting with Windows 3.1 it was considered an operating system and
the EULA was changed to to reflect this - one computer per licence.

Mike Brannigan (Microsoft) has posted this information a number of
times.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[purplehaz]

Up to and including Windows 3.0 it was considered an "application" and
therefore the EULA allowed for installation on 2 computers provided
the same person was the primary user of both machines. That same
general principle still applies to the retail versions of Microsoft
Office.

Starting with Windows 3.1 it was considered an operating system and
the EULA was changed to to reflect this - one computer per licence.

Mike Brannigan (Microsoft) has posted this information a number of
times.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Alex Nichol]

i'm going to upgrade to XP Home from ME but i have 3 pc's
built up over the last few years and i have ME on all of
them, but everyone i know who i've asked seems to say that
I'll only be able to activate it once on one machine.

That is the whole point of activation. Windows, since before Win95, has
always been sold as a 'license to use' on a single machine. So I bet
your ME machines are in breach. It is just to prevent people doing this
that activation was brought in - see www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm