Re: selling windows xp and everything that goes with it!!

From: Ken Blake, MVP (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:19:12 -0700

In news:eqLxyw6IEHA.3840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
Tony Talmage <fakeaddress@nodomain.com> typed:

> The CD is yours to sell; as long as you no longer have any
traces of
> XP on your machines, you won't be in violation of the EULA.

Yes, that's true of a retail version, but not an OEM version.

> Out of
> curiousity, is this a retail CD, or did you get it with a
packaged
> machine (such as one from Dell)? If you have an OEM CD, I
think you
> might be out of luck as far as selling it, unless you sell the
exact
> machine you purchased;

Yes, you can sell an OEM version only if you sell it along with
the machine it's been installed on.

> I believe the OEM CDs are keyed specifically
> to one individual machine, and thus would be pointless to
anyone that
> would purchase your CD if you've already activated it.

Only *some* OEM versions are BIOS-locked to particular machines.
There also exist generic OEM versions for which that isn't true.
However the licensing rules for both types are the same: the
license ties it permanently to the first machine it's installed
on, and it can never be moved to another. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Justme" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1d6b001c423aa$463ad610$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Does the rule about, one person, one windows xp
>> activatation still stand if I decide to sell all my
>> computing stuff?

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