Re: activation

You know you could always find another operating system...................
peter
"Jay" <jayhois@vermontel.net> wrote in message news:041301c34376$0f723250$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| this is a simple statement, with a few added questions.
| 1: FACT, having to "activate" Windows XP so it can only
| be used on 1 PC is BS! why should i pay $200 a pop for
| software to put on each different PC in my house? thats
| stupid! what happens if i rebuild my machine? or just
| have to reformat? is it gonna tell me i have to buy XP
| again? I own 2 PC's, i WILL NOT spend $400 just to put XP
| on both of them! who was the genius who thought that up?
| each copy should have a licence, to install it on a fixed
| number of PC's. that way if a family buys it they can do
| all the PC's in thier house on 1 copy. I have 4 PC's in
| the entire house. my 2 , my mothers, and my brothers.
| they expect up to spend almost $1000 for an OS that is
| not going to leave the house!Microsoft is getting to damn
| greedy!


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They sell you a retail version on the web, then when you get the
product it turns out to be a oem version. I know this happen to alot

of people. And they couldn't get thier money back or the retail
version of the os.



Greg P Rozelle

Greetings --

What planet are you from? Does your local grocer let you walk out
of the market with four loaves of bread when you've paid for only one?
Can you drive four cars home if you've paid for only one? Does your
local clothier allow you to leave the shop with four shirts if you've
purchased only one? Have you noticed a trend, yet? Where in the
world did you ever get the absurd idea that software manufacturers
would sell their products any differently?

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and copyright
laws, if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each
computer on which it is installed. 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) the sort of multiple installations you're asking about.

WPA does not prevent you from reinstalling on the same machine,
should it ever be necessary.

No one "expects" you to buy WinXp for every machine in the house.
If you want every computer to run the same operating system, that's
_your_ choice.

It's thieves like you who have made it necessary for Microsoft and
other software manufacturers to implement copy protection mechanisms
like Product Activation. You have no one to blame but yourself, and
others of your ilk.


Bruce Chambers

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"Jay" <jayhois@vermontel.net> wrote in message
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> this is a simple statement, with a few added questions.
> 1: FACT, having to "activate" Windows XP so it can only
> be used on 1 PC is BS! why should i pay $200 a pop for
> software to put on each different PC in my house? thats
> stupid! what happens if i rebuild my machine? or just
> have to reformat? is it gonna tell me i have to buy XP
> again? I own 2 PC's, i WILL NOT spend $400 just to put XP
> on both of them! who was the genius who thought that up?
> each copy should have a licence, to install it on a fixed
> number of PC's. that way if a family buys it they can do
> all the PC's in thier house on 1 copy. I have 4 PC's in
> the entire house. my 2 , my mothers, and my brothers.
> they expect up to spend almost $1000 for an OS that is
> not going to leave the house!Microsoft is getting to damn
> greedy!

No kidding. I especially liked the paid for one loaf of
bread, you get one loaf of bread analogy Bruce.

>-----Original Message-----
>this is a simple statement, with a few added questions.
>1: FACT, having to "activate" Windows XP so it can only
>be used on 1 PC is BS! why should i pay $200 a pop for
>software to put on each different PC in my house? thats
>stupid! what happens if i rebuild my machine? or just
>have to reformat? is it gonna tell me i have to buy XP
>again? I own 2 PC's, i WILL NOT spend $400 just to put

XP

>on both of them! who was the genius who thought that up?
>each copy should have a licence, to install it on a

fixed

>number of PC's. that way if a family buys it they can do
>all the PC's in thier house on 1 copy. I have 4 PC's in
>the entire house. my 2 , my mothers, and my brothers.
>they expect up to spend almost $1000 for an OS that is
>not going to leave the house!Microsoft is getting to

damn

>greedy!
>.
>

Have you guys ever heard of buy one get one free?

Also, Anyone here heard about Networking the computers together?

This way one computer can have xp on it and the others can have
different os on it. Then, all the computers can access each other.
And It is legal and not against Microsoft Eula.


Greg P Rozelle

Greetings --

Heard of? Sure. Believed? Not since I was very young and naive.
;-}

"Buy one, get one free" sales offers have been nothing but sucker
bait from time immemorial. No merchant is going to make such an offer
unless the price of the single item has been "adjusted" to cover the
cost of the second, purportedly "free" item.

TNSTAAFL, for cryin' out loud, people!


Bruce Chambers

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"Greg P Rozelle" <nosuchemail@dot.com> wrote in message
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> Have you guys ever heard of buy one get one free?
>

Greetings --

Quite right. There's nothing that says the OP *has* to upgrade
every computer.

Bruce Chambers

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"Greg P Rozelle" <nosuchemail@dot.com> wrote in message
news:3f086d52.15279108@msnews.microsoft.com...

>
> Also, Anyone here heard about Networking the computers together?
>
> This way one computer can have xp on it and the others can have
> different os on it. Then, all the computers can access each other.
> And It is legal and not against Microsoft Eula.
>
>
> Greg P Rozelle
>
>
>

"Jay" <jayhois@vermontel.net> wrote:

<snip>

>each copy should have a licence, to install it on a fixed
>number of PC's.

You got that much right.

That is exactly what you do get, and what you have always gotten with
Windows.

A license for a fixed number of computers.

And that number is fixed at 1. Always has been for Microsoft
operating systems.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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