Re: Help! Illegal copy of XP Professional

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Thank you Vanguard,
I know Microsoft sell OEM versions through distributors, which can be bought
very cheaply if you also buy a cable or system fan or other minor hardware,
but I wasn't discussing their business model, rather trying to give a simple
answer to a fairly simple question. For what its worth there are great deals
to be had on Office as well if you buy OEM.
I don't believe I said anything about how XP sold under the Volume licence
program should be deployed, I would have thought it obvious that the
licences were for use within the same organisation! Again though I can't see
how this helps the original questioner. Picking up on whether an XP VLP
version is called Corporate Edition or not is just going to confuse and
besides is irrelevant to the original question.

As for DRM being introduced in media player 9-thanks for the correction. I'm
not a fan of media player-I prefer WinAmp, but please folks don't start a
debate about that lol.

Chelsea


"Vanguard" <Vangu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Chelsea" <gallium1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello TeaCrumpets,
>> OEM software is not necessarily illegal or pirated. Microsoft just sells
>> its software to Original Equipment Manufacturers- OEMs' at a fraction of
>> the cost that they would charge you or I.
>
> Microsoft also sells retail versions of OEM versions but through
> distributors (with the caveat that it be purchased with qualifying
> hardware). So the OEM version is from Microsoft rather than a
> vendor-customized OEM version, like from Dell. The reason the OEM version
> which you buy just one instance thereof being cheaper is that you are not
> paying for support (and why Microsoft won't provide support because you
> didn't pay for it). Those 2 included tech calls with the full-version
> retail copy is because you paid more than for the full-version OEM copy.
> While the OEMs get a price break due to volume sales, you still get a
> price break when buying just one instance because you aren't paying for
> support.
>
>> There is even a corporate version which doesn't require product
>> activation.
>
> The "Corporate Edition" is a pirated copy. It is one license or instance
> stripped out from a purchase of a Volume License. When you purchase the
> volume license, all instances included within that volume license are to
> be used with the same organization, so selling off one of its licenses is
> a violation of the terms of sale when you got the volume license. Some
> shady sellers at eBay used to do that with QuickBooks, too, where they
> would buy the 5-license pack, make their own 4 copies and sell off those,
> and the user wouldn't know they had a pirated copy until they called tech
> support.
>
>> I do not know a lot about media player 10, but I do know that it
>> incorporates new technology to for protecting the copyright on music.
>
> DRM (Digital Rights Management) was added back in version 9 of WMP.
>
> Maybe the DRM database is corrupted
> (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=810422).


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