Re: activation

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From: Bruce Chambers (bruce_a_chambers_at_h0tmail.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 07:11:50 -0600

Greetings --

    No, it's not. While _some_ Microsoft application licenses (retail
licenses only) permit such usage, the
one-desktop-and-one-portable-computer allowance has _never_ applied to
Microsoft's operating systems. Why not just read the EULA by which
you agreed to abide when you installed the OS?

Bruce Chambers 

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"choro-nik" <choro-nik@tvcom.net> wrote in message
news:%23%23iXhODfEHA.636@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> But isn't it legal to install a copy of windows on a second computer
such as
> a laptop (assuming that the original CD including licence etc) was
bought
> for one's home computer without one having to buy a second copy and
a second
> licence of the same software?
>

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