Re: Loading XP onto multiple computers

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:16:48 -0600

Greetings --

    You'll need to purchase a separate WinXP license for each computer
on which you install it.

        First of all, you probably have an OEM license for WinXP on
the work PC. An OEM version must be sold with a piece of hardware
(normally a motherboard or hard rive, if not an entire PC) and is
_permanently_ bound to the first PC on which it's installed. An OEM
license, once installed, is not legally transferable to another
computer under _any_ circumstances.

    Secondly, as it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating
systems, it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and
U.S. copyright law http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/117.html), if
not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on
which it is installed. (Consult an attorney versed in copyright law
to determine final applicability in your locale.) 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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"Paul" <paulhannum@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1750e01c448df$2bab9af0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hey,
> Bought a computer for home office, getting another on
> ebay with no OS.  Can I load the XP from the work
> computer onto my second computer?  In other words, how
> many times can you load XP onto how many different
> machines?  Anyone know?
> Thanks,
> PH

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