XP Licensing

[Dave Navarro]

Microsoft needs to take a closer look at licensing of their products.

I am a registered OEM System Builder. And I keep getting all these
offers from Microsoft for free stuff when I buy copies of XP from their
authorized distributors.

The problem is... Their authorized distributors sell Windows XP for
more than I get it from my normal channels. I'm buying legitimate
copies of XP from my normal hardware distributor for $15 per copy less
than I can find it at Ingram Micro, Tech Data, MA Labs and others.

In this cut throat world of competition among system builders, $15 is a
significant amount.

While I typically build about 40 to 50 systems a year, I can't afford to
buy 10 to 20 copies of XP at a time in order to get the best discounts
from authorized distributors.

I've emailed people at the System Builder program numerous times on
this, but I've gotten nothing but canned responses that don't address my
issue.

Maybe someone from Microsoft is lurking here and will get it to the
right people/person.

 

[David Candy]

Well perhaps you need to attend System Builder events. Free piss, free food, usually free present, and you can corner the program managers.

 

[Gordon]

Free piss,

System Builders are into watersports then? ;-)

 

[David Candy]

Got office XP last one I went to. They aren't much fun.

 

[Gordon]

Got office XP last one I went to. They aren't much fun.

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And the band played ....
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289883713.html

Free piss,

System Builders are into watersports then? ;-)

Whooooosh!----------->

 

[Joh N.]

Gordon, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to use,
wrote:

Free piss,

System Builders are into watersports then? ;-)

No, only David and Crusty, the proven hypocrates (see thread 'Require: file
manager which shows folder sizes') is into them.

Joh N.

 

[Dave Navarro]

Well perhaps you need to attend System Builder events. Free piss, free food, usually free present, and you can corner the program managers.

Been there, done that. Lots of promises, no results.

--Dave