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Oem cd clarification requested
Oem cd clarification requested
I have read a post in the xp group that said the hardware requirement was dropped for all windows operating system including older operating systems like win95,98se, me, e.t.c. Is this person correct? Greg Ro |
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What do you mean? Many OEM copies of operating systems are bios locked to
specific hardware and continue to be so. Or are you referring to the requirement to also buy an item of system hardware when purchasing an OEM version of the operating system? Note that Microsoft and most if not all OEMs are no longer marketing Win 9x operating systems. -- Mike Maltby Greg Ro wrote: Oem cd clarification requested I have read a post in the xp group that said the hardware requirement was dropped for all windows operating system including older operating systems like win95,98se, me, e.t.c. Is this person correct? |
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Due to legal requirements, all OEM software must be purchased
with a non-peripheral (internal) hardware item. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Greg Ro" wrote: | Oem cd clarification requested | | I have read a post in the xp group that said the hardware requirement | was dropped for all windows operating system including older operating | systems like win95,98se, me, e.t.c. | | Is this person correct? | | | Greg Ro |
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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" posted the following misleading lie: Due to legal requirements, all OEM software must be purchased with a non-peripheral (internal) hardware item. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups Wrong. I have bought three and have a friend who has bought around fifity generic OEM XPs with no hardware. In Spain and many other European countries, OEMs are bought without any hardware and a retail rip off version is almost impossible to find. Want urls from the major computer stores in Spain as proof? If you go he http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...%3A3951%3A3954 you will see that Walmart sells generic OEMs with -- get this -- a peripheral (external) mouse. Soooooooo, your post is completely wrong. Better luck next time. Alias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Greg Ro" wrote: | Oem cd clarification requested | | I have read a post in the xp group that said the hardware requirement | was dropped for all windows operating system including older operating | systems like win95,98se, me, e.t.c. | | Is this person correct? | | | Greg Ro |
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Those stores are then in violation of the marketing agreement
they have with Microsoft. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alias" wrote: | Wrong. I have bought three and have a friend who has bought around fifity | generic OEM XPs with no hardware. In Spain and many other European | countries, OEMs are bought without any hardware and a retail rip off version | is almost impossible to find. Want urls from the major computer stores in | Spain as proof? | | If you go he | http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...%3A3951%3A3954 | you will see that Walmart sells generic OEMs with -- get this -- a | peripheral (external) mouse. | | Soooooooo, your post is completely wrong. Better luck next time. | | Alias |
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I take it then that you are fully conversant with and well versed in
European Community Law and Microsoft's term of business as applied in the European Union? -- Mike Maltby Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: Those stores are then in violation of the marketing agreement they have with Microsoft. |
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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote Those stores are then in violation of the marketing agreement they have with Microsoft. LOL! No, Carey, you are wrong. Walmart isn't exactly a small store and I don't see MS doing jack sh*t about it, do you? Why is it so difficult for you to admit you made a mistake? Ego? Alias -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alias" wrote: | Wrong. I have bought three and have a friend who has bought around fifity | generic OEM XPs with no hardware. In Spain and many other European | countries, OEMs are bought without any hardware and a retail rip off version | is almost impossible to find. Want urls from the major computer stores in | Spain as proof? | | If you go he | http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...%3A3951%3A3954 | you will see that Walmart sells generic OEMs with -- get this -- a | peripheral (external) mouse. | | Soooooooo, your post is completely wrong. Better luck next time. | | Alias |
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He obviously isn't as I am currently using a legit generic OEM that I bought
all by itself with no hardware. How Carey became an MVP is beyond me. Alias "Mike M" wrote I take it then that you are fully conversant with and well versed in European Community Law and Microsoft's term of business as applied in the European Union? -- Mike Maltby Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: Those stores are then in violation of the marketing agreement they have with Microsoft. |
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Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
Those stores are then in violation of the marketing agreement they have with Microsoft. When did you become a Judge? -- Peace! Kurt Self-anointed Moderator microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea http://microscum.com/mscommunity "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron! "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei" |
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:13:44 +0100, "Mike M"
wrote: What do you mean? Many OEM copies of operating systems are bios locked to specific hardware and continue to be so. Or are you referring to the requirement to also buy an item of system hardware when purchasing an OEM version of the operating system? Note that Microsoft and most if not all OEMs are no longer marketing Win 9x operating systems. I mean buying an oem cd disk without hardware. Someone in the xp group posted that an oem copy can now be sold without having the hardware included. This person said a Microsoft person told him this. Greg Ro |
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