Re: How should I buy XP Pro?



"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Like the Full version, it can do either
an upgrade or a clean installation (if you own a previous qualifying
version so you can insert its CD as proof of ownership when prompted
to do so)

That's the problem. Thousands, maybe millions of laptops were sold with
NO CD's. As a buyer of one of those I have a system that Microsoft will
neither condemn nor verify and nothing to do about it.

Jim L via the operating system it took IBM 15 years to kill - it
squirms tho dead. --
"Feel inadequate? Destroy stuff and kill people." Confucious, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
.



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