Re: About the CDKEY of Windows XP

From: Mike Kolitz (mikekol_at_idontlikespam.mvps.org)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:04:14 -0500

>english character is more beautiful...
That's the first time I've ever heard that :)

> And I want to install SP2 later when it is release..
Assuming you don't have a pirated copy of Windows XP, SP2 will be available
for all languages that XP is available in, though I'm not sure if they will
all be made available simultaneously. 

-- 
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup / Deployment
"LamSoft" <lamsoft@lamsoft.net> wrote in message 
news:e0FEHVqPEHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Because I want to use English Windows XP on my Laptop (english character 
> is
> more beautiful....)
> And I want to install SP2 later when it is release..
>
> "hermes" <hermes@messenger.net> ¦b¶l¥ó
> news:OoLG9EpPEHA.3420@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl ¤¤¼¶¼g...
>> Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, LamSoft typed:
>> > I got two Legal copies of Windows XP which they come with my laptop.
>> > One of them is Chinese Language and the other one is English.
>> >
>> > Can I use the English Windows XP to install on my laptop but use the
>> > Chinese one CDKEY on my Chinese Laptop?
>> > THANKS
>>
>> I'm not sure about the different keys working for the various language
> cds,
>> but I don't think so (based on seeing this questions answered here
> before).
>> Why would you want to use the Chinese key for the US install?  If you 
>> have
>> any other questions about licensing, look here:
>> http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/
>>
>> --
>> hermes
>> DRM sux!  Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
>> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
>

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