Question about mulitple computers

[Guest]

According to what I am reading on the end licensing agreement and the help
and support, I can only install my upgrade version on xp on one computer? Am
I correct in this because the cost of one upgrade was bad enough but having
to pay another 90 for additional license is a bit much

 

[Jerry]

It is correct. One purchase required for each system.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

One license, one computer.
The way it has been since at least Windows 95.
If you want Windows XP on two computers, buy a second copy.

Or keep at least one the way it is unless there is a compelling reason to
spend your $ on the upgrades.

 

[Ken Blake]

According to what I am reading on the end licensing agreement
and the help
and support, I can only install my upgrade version on xp on one
computer? Am
I correct in this because the cost of one upgrade was bad
enough but having
to pay another 90 for additional license is a bit much

Yes, you are correct, but there's nothing new here. This is
exactly the same rule that's been in effect on every version of
Windows starting with Windows 3.1. The only thing new with XP is
that there's now an enforcement mechanism.

 

[Guest]

ok now am i correct and understanding that purchasing xp pro would support
installion on more than one cdomputer

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

No.

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Jonah

ok now am i correct and understanding that purchasing xp pro would support
installion on more than one cdomputer

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

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[Alex Nichol]

According to what I am reading on the end licensing agreement and the help
and support, I can only install my upgrade version on xp on one computer? Am
I correct in this because the cost of one upgrade was bad enough but having
to pay another 90 for additional license is a bit much

Yes, that's right.

Windows is provided - and always has been - as a license to use on one
single computer. Other ones need their own copies.

Live with the price, or do not use it. And BTW an upgrade should only
be used on one machine where the original system is not reused - a
second one without such support needs a *full* license

 

[Bruce Chambers]

According to what I am reading on the end licensing agreement and the help
and support, I can only install my upgrade version on xp on one computer? Am
I correct in this because the cost of one upgrade was bad enough but having
to pay another 90 for additional license is a bit much

You're reading the EULA correctly. You need to purchase a separate
WinXP Pro license for each computer on which you install it.

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and U.S.
copyright law http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/117.html), if not
technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on which it
is installed. (Consult an attorney versed in copyright law to determine
final applicability in your locale.) 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)
multiple installations using a single license.


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[LabiaLicker]

According to what I am reading on the end licensing agreement and the help
and support, I can only install my upgrade version on xp on one computer? Am
I correct in this because the cost of one upgrade was bad enough but having
to pay another 90 for additional license is a bit much

Doesn't that spEULA just give you a nice warm tingly feeling? Don't you
actually *like* buying something only to find out you're actually just having
to pay the 'owner' money to just *borrow* it?

 

[pjp]

Well they ain't getting any of them back unless they refund the purchase
price ... and it'd have to be all or nothing, e.g. every version of Windows
since 2.0 in my case.