XP Pro on two home machines?

[tnorton]

Greetings, I am considering installing XP Pro on my home
desktop and my lap top. Must I purchase two seperate
upgrades or full products to do this? Or can I purchase
the full XP Pro and use it on both?
Peace!
TN

 

[Cerridwen]

Greetings, I am considering installing XP Pro on my home
desktop and my lap top. Must I purchase two seperate
upgrades or full products to do this? Or can I purchase
the full XP Pro and use it on both?
Peace!
TN

You are confusing Windows with Office. Office (providing it's retail, not
OEM) may be installed on a desktop and a laptop. Windows is one licence per
system (as it has been since 3.1).

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You must purchase a separate license for each machine.

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA, if not
technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on which
it is installed. 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


Bruce Chambers

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[Hermes]

Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, Bruce Chambers typed:

Greetings --

You must purchase a separate license for each machine.

Bruce, you have not completed this statement, so allow me to complete it
for you.

"You must purchase a separate license for each machine..." IF you insist
on being in license compliancy with M$. You are otherwise not obligated
to do so.

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA,

I never knew there was more than one EULA. Figures M$ would try to slip
us the knob when it thinks we are not looking.

technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on which it
is installed. 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


Bruce Chambers

--
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

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Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.