Country of Origin on COA

[tonyt905]

I purchased a Home Editon full retail (non-OEM) and the country of origin on the COA is labeled as Ireland. Will I have any problems using this in the USA? Should I return it? Don't want to be out this amount of money--I am worried to take the shring wr
apping off.

[Donald L McDaniel]

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> I purchased a Home Editon full retail (non-OEM) and the country of origin on the COA is labeled as Ireland. Will I have any problems using this in the USA? Should I return it? Don't want to be out this amount of money--I am worried to take the shring
wrapping off.
>
You will probably have to reset the localizations, such as the method of
showing decimals, the local keyboard, the display of money, the display
of time, etc, for the US. But then again, you might not.

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[Alex Nichol]

tonyt905 wrote:

>I purchased a Home Editon full retail (non-OEM) and the country of origin on the COA is labeled as Ireland. Will I have any problems using this in the USA?

Msoft have a large distribution center in Ireland, serving all Europe,
and this is probably reflected in the label. The disk itself is
probably the usual one sold in English speaking countries (I don't think
they yet have 'localised' to the Irish language, though they have just
announced development of a Welsh one) which is the same as in the US. A
cross check, once windows is installed, is to r-click on the
Windows\system32\kernel32.dll file, take Properties, Version, and look
at the Language - it will probably be English (United States)

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