[geeks] Im going to XP, wish me luck

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Chris Byrne <chris at chrisbyrne.com> wrote:

> > Please discuss things like this in email, and not on lists I host.

One option that I found for getting copies of WinXP were to befriend IT
folks in small/mid-size companies: at $employer we buy all our desktops
from Dell, and they all come with WinXP. BUT, because our company is a
certain size (200+ employees), we purchase licenses seperate from the
machine en masse.

So, for every new desktop, we typically wind up with an extra copy of
WinXP. Full media (1 CD), and a CULA (the activation key). We haven't
bought any new desktops in a while, but typically on the few ocasions
when I needed a copy it was easy to come by.

BTW, bundled Office applications are only "legal" in companies with
less than 250 employees, IIRC.


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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