Re: [OT] Bloody Micro$oft

[Vargster <vargster@xxxxxxxxx>]

That may be accurate according to 'the rules', but MS can officially
sanction breaking that rule...

I had an old E-Machines (piece of junk!) machine (which had OEM XP on it)
which died, badly.
I bought a new Shuttle box, removed the COA sticker from the E-Machine and
stuck it on the side of the shuttle, then installed a fresh copy of XP on
it, and used the number on the sticker...
XP told me it wouldn't auth it and to call the MS auth line. Which I did,
and spent 20 mins talking to an IVR system.
I keyed in the numeric version of the COA that the XP installer generated,
answered some questions (how many PCs is this copy of XP installed on...
duh!) and it said it was OK and generated me another very long number to
type into the Shuttle.
Which then auth'ed itself OK, and is still perfectly having taking down
upgrades and passing the WGA test OK.

So, MS seems to be applying different rules in various situations...



On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Steve Morgan <smorgo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   If it's an OEM copy, it's only licensed for use on the machine it
was
> originally supplied with. You can't even legally use it on another
machine
> you own.
>
> Steve Morgan
>
>


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