Re: Best online place to purchace licenses for additional users at home?

From: hermes (hermes_at_messenger.net)
Date: 05/31/04


Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 00:46:27 -0500

Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, <Ken K> typed:
> I am about to upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. My choice, as
> I understand it, is to either purchase an upgrade copy or purchase a
> full copy of XP. I also want to upgrade my wife's Win2K computer and
> my daughter's Win98 computer to XP.
>
> As I have looked online for options, it appears that I could purchase
> OEM licenses that do not have the disk, just the license. If there is
> no catch, then that would be the most economical way to do the
> upgrade.
>
> Is my impression correct that the OEM license would work with the XP
> disk with the only concern being that there would be no manuals and no
> support from Microsoft?
>
> Thanks
> Ken K

Suggest you refer to the site below before making any purchases. Read it,
then make your own choice.
http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/
http://microscum.com/crapolammpafaq/

--
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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