what do the colors on Microsoft media mean?

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I've seen Microsoft media bearing several different colors. Pink for
(I assume) student media, yellow for (I assume) volume license media,
and blue.

This makes me wonder... what possible colors are there and what are
their respective meanings?
 
It sounds like you are talking about XP CD's that Dell, HP or other big
system builders give out. XP CD's you by in store or from and OEM are
usually the hologram CD's.

Places like Dell usually color their CD's to tell them apart from Home, Pro,
SP1, SP2, etc.
 
Ryan@CTL said:
It sounds like you are talking about XP CD's that Dell, HP or other big
system builders give out. XP CD's you by in store or from and OEM are
usually the hologram CD's.

Places like Dell usually color their CD's to tell them apart from Home, Pro,
SP1, SP2, etc.
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The CDs I'm talking about have holographic portions, as well. The pink
and the yellow ones also say "Microsoft Licensing" on them (in pink and
yellow, respectively).

I haven't seen an OEM or retail CD in a while - are they completly
holographic or are they now partially holographic, as well?
 
DSP copies of XP are holograms. Restore CD's from system builders are what
ever color they have their disk duplicaters make them.
 
Ryan@CTL said:
DSP copies of XP are holograms. Restore CD's from system builders are what
ever color they have their disk duplicaters make them.
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What's a DSP?

In any event, the CDs I'm talking about aren't form system builders -
they're from Microsoft (or rather, they're from the company Microsoft
contracts out with to manufacture its CDs). Here's a picture of one of
them (found it via Google Images):

http://netfactory.dk/images/stories/microsoft_cd.jpg

This one has portions that are holographic and a portion that's light
green. I've seen other CDs that are like this but have blue parts
instead of light green, or pink parts or yellow parts.

I'm currious as to what all the varrious colors that CDs such as these
come in and what those colors signify.
 
yawnmoth said:
I've seen Microsoft media bearing several different colors. Pink for
(I assume) student media, yellow for (I assume) volume license media,
and blue.

This makes me wonder... what possible colors are there and what are
their respective meanings?
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Which color the graphic designer liked that day?
 
RobertVA said:
Which color the graphic designer liked that day?
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If that were the case, then it seems like student media (as made
available under the microsoft campus agreement) would periodically
later in colors. It doesn't. It's always pink.
 
The one you show in that picture is a volume license disk. MS will send
volume license users, MSDN users, Action Pack users, etc., special disks.
You can tell by what it says at the top of the CD. These disks are not
available to the general public.

DSP is the same as an OEM CD, but you don't have to purchase a full system
with it. Only a specific piece of hardware and it runs roughly $10-20 more
then OEM.
 
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