[Elecraft] OT - End of the line for XP

[J. W. (Dub) Thornton]

At 12:22 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote:
>   Unless the policy has changed, and I seriously doubt it, 
> Microsoft allows you to install XP on three different CPUs. When 
> and if you try to load it on a forth, the activation process will 
> fail and tell you to call customer service. I had a motherboard 
> fail and was already on #3. I called customer service and told them 
> that the old machine was dead and the rep actually reset me to zero 
> (!) so after loading a new machine I have two left. I was prepared 
> for a battle but I was boviously quite surprised. Either Microsoft 
> is trying to work with people who play by the rules (and don't 
> steal software) or I was just lucky and got the right rep.
>   In any event, you have nothing but your time to lose by trying to 
> load another machine and also to ask for help if you need it.
>   Ron - W2RIP

I think there is a bit of mis-understanding here, might be my OWN 
mis-understanding of what Ron is trying to say too.  A CPU is a 
Central Processing Unit, the "Brain" of our computer.  An operating 
system such as XP is never installed to this CPU, but is installed to 
a harddrive that is installed in the computer, which is what I 
suspect Ron probably meant to say.

To my knowledge, Microsoft has never allowed one to have an operating 
system such as XP, LEGALLY installed on more than one computer at a 
time, without purchasing a multi system license.  When Microsoft 
released XP, it was with the stipulation that a customer having XP 
installed on a computer, would be allowed to change up to three 
devices installed on that computer, such as harddrive, video card, 
memory, etc. Changing a fourth device would disable the operating 
system, requiring a call to Microsoft in order to re-enable the 
operating system, provided you could convince them that what you were 
doing was actually installing additional devices in the same 
computer, and NOT installing the operating system to a new computer.

"73"  Dub


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J. W.  (Dub) Thornton  K5DUB
Minco, OK.