Posted Thursday 29th October 2009 10:52 GMT
OEM Licences
"OEM Microsoft Windows licenses do not have any transfer rights and live and die on the original computer they are shipped with and installed on, period."
This is a EULA 'feature' which began some time after XP came out but has been sneakily backported to 95. If you have an uninstalled OEM copy of any MS OS (even that antediluvian one) you can't sell it; I know because I tried. MS killed the trade in licence keys from scrap PCs by imposing this condition. They don't even like you re-installing the OS on a machine with a valid licence sticker. All in the name of more sales.
It would be nice if the EULA was tested in court. It might cut down all this chicanery.
Don't even get me started on the MS $1 = £1 conversion rate!
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