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[Frank Bax]

At 08:48 PM 4/30/05, David Aikema wrote:

>Depends on what kind of MS license you have I think.  The OEM copies
>that most people will get with their computers are not transferable in
>this fashion, but if you buy a full retail edition, I think that the
>product is then transferable.  Of course, I'm not a lawyer...


Having purchased many OEM copies of Windows 98 and XP in the past, I can 
tell you David is correct.  The vendor is obligated to sell a number of 
components with the OEM disk/license.  I usually bought a complete system, 
but I think minimum is something like: motherboard, CPU, RAM, (and perhaps 
hard disk).

Frank