OEM software

[Alias]

Try another store ... I bought one last week with no hardware whatsoever.

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[Jim Macklin]

That is just their store policy. You an buy elsewhere.


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in message | My local computer store told me that they aren't allowed
to sell me an
| OEM version of Windows except preinstalled (and of course
accompanied by
| the CD) on a machine that they have built and configured
to M$
| standards. IOW, even a new hard drive doesn't cut it.
|
| MB
|
| Whether you vote Democrat or Republican on November 2, the
country will
| still be run from boardrooms in the USA and elsewhere, not
by your
| elected representatives.
|
|
| On 10/29/04 12:04 am No Spam put fingers to keyboard and
launched the
| following message into cyberspace:
|
| > The legit ones will also give you a piece of hardware,
to satisify
| > Microsoft's licensing terms. This could be a floppy
cable, a sound card
| > cable, some small, cheap piece of junk they have plenty
of.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

My local computer store told me that they aren't allowed to
sell me an
OEM version of Windows except preinstalled (and of course
accompanied
by the CD) on a machine that they have built and configured to
M$
standards. IOW, even a new hard drive doesn't cut it.

They are wrong. They are allowed to sell it as long as you buy it
with hardware.

If they won't sell it to you, try another store. You shouldn't
have any trouble finding one.