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Skriven 2006-09-16 08:05:00 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES SCAGLIONE
Ärende: MS tightens the Noose
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CS>As I said to Tom, no one (unless they're paranoid) is going to toss
CS>their OEM copy of XP away and purchase another just because they put
CS>together a new machine or upgraded their motherboard.

I got this requrading Activation and OEM Software form the www.aumha.org
website

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OEM versions
Restrictions of specific license types may limit the foregoing. OEM
versions of Windows XP are licensed together with the hardware with
which they are purchased, as an entity, and such a copy may not be moved
to a different computer. Also, other specific license types (e.g.,
Academic licenses) are handled in different ways. These aren't a WPA
issue per se, but rather an issue of the license for that purchase, and
therefore outside the scope of this discussion of WPA.

There are two versions of OEM Windows XP systems. One can be purchased
separately, with qualifying subsidiary hardware, and installed with that
hardware to an existing machine, to which it becomes bound. The software
may be reinstalled and reactivated indefinitely as with a retail system
as long as it is still on the original machine. It may not be
transferred to a different computer. It is activated as described above,
but if it were installed to hardware seen as not substantially the same,
the activation would be refused as falling outside the license.

In the other OEM form, the system is provided pre-installed by a major
supplier. Instead of activation, the system is `locked' to the BIOS on
the motherboard. The validity of this lock is checked at boot. As long
as this is satisfied, other hardware may be changed freely, but any
replacement motherboard must be for a compatible one supplied by the
original maker.

If a BIOS-locked system is installed to a board where the lock fails, it
enters a normal Activation process at startup. However, beginning 1
March 2005, the Product Key supplied on a label by the computer
manufacturer, and used for the initial intallation, will not be accepted
for activation. A new copy of Windows XP, with a license allowing
installation on a different machine, will be needed. This means that any
replacement motherboard (or upgrade to its BIOS) must be supplied by the
original maker, who will ensure the lock is maintained.

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