Windows XP home COA

[David.J.Dowling]

Steve,

Here is your anwser. Windows XP is windows XP it dosn't matter if it
is Retail, Upgrade, or OEM. They all require activation through
microsoft. Microsoft gets a little information from the registry about
hardware that includes your motherboard chipset, lan, and video. If
you change any of these it can cause you to have to run a windows
repair and/or reactivate windows. When you do this you will have to
activate by telephone and tell them that you are reactivating due to
upgrade. As far as the legal mombojombo OEMs are not registered to any
hardware until they are activated.

 

[Guest]

Some Info I found If anybody would like to see which I found on the internet.


There are some very important reasons that an OEM license costs so much less
than a retail license. OEM licenses are very limited:
OEM versions must be sold with a piece of non-peripheral hardware (normally
a motherboard or hard drive, if not an entire PC, although Microsoft has
greatly relaxed the hardware criteria for WinXP) and are "permanently" bound
to the first PC on which they are installed.
An OEM license, once installed, is not legally transferable to another OEM
versions of Windows XP:
cannot upgrade over an existing Windows installation.
must be installed "clean" on a freshly reformatted drive or partition.
cannot be transferred to a different computer in the future.
only hardware component you cannot change is the motherboard model.
the license cannot be sold or transferred to another user.
are not eligible for free Microsoft technical support.
any problems whatsoever with the installation CD or Product Key is not
eligible for Microsoft support....you have to deal with the "seller".
cost less than "retail versions" due to the above limitations/risks.
Best Advice: Purchase a "Retail Version" of Windows XP!

 

[kurttrail]

steve wrote:

Best Advice: Purchase a "Retail Version" of Windows XP!

Carey Jr.!

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Some Info I found If anybody would like to see which I found on the
internet.


There are some very important reasons that an OEM license costs so
much less than a retail license. OEM licenses are very limited:
OEM versions must be sold with a piece of non-peripheral hardware
(normally a motherboard or hard drive, if not an entire PC, although
Microsoft has greatly relaxed the hardware criteria for WinXP) and
are "permanently" bound to the first PC on which they are installed.
An OEM license, once installed, is not legally transferable to

You've quoted a message often posted in this newsgroup, and other
newsgroups, by Bruce Chambers, who is not only a frequent poster here, but
also has contributed to this very thread. If you quote someone else's
message, at least have the decency to attribute it to him.