Installation

[Drew]

I purchased Windows Xp :HOME EDITION... FOR MY HOME, not
one computer. My home consists of one desktop and one
laptop, I already payed a rediculous amount for windows,
I deserve to install it on both computers. According to
information I just found out today that is impossible.
Please tell me there is a way to do it. (I havent tried
it yet, but I some friends told me it was impossible, I
just wanted to get all the info here before I format my
laptop and realize they were right.)

[Sir_George]

Drew,

The situation has always been "One license, One computer" which translates
to mean that you, and everyone else, were never legally allowed to install
the OS on more than one computer. Now everyone who ignored that fact has
been forced to adhere to the rules with XP's enforcement policy. Of course,
there are Warez sites that you can visit and use the information there to
circumvent the law, that's up to you.

--
Sir_George


"Drew" > wrote in message
...
> I purchased Windows Xp :HOME EDITION... FOR MY HOME, not
> one computer. My home consists of one desktop and one
> laptop, I already payed a rediculous amount for windows,
> I deserve to install it on both computers. According to
> information I just found out today that is impossible.
> Please tell me there is a way to do it. (I havent tried
> it yet, but I some friends told me it was impossible, I
> just wanted to get all the info here before I format my
> laptop and realize they were right.)

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Don't be absurd. If you buy one television "for your home," do
you "deserve" to leave the store with two? If you buy one car, do you
"deserve" to drive two off the dealer's lot? If you take your
wife/girlfriend/pet hamster to dinner and the pair of you collectively
consume two meals, do you "deserve" to pay for only one? What is your
function at Berkley? Judging by your demonstrated reasoning ability
(and lack of spelling and English composition skills), I certainly
hope that you're neither a student or a faculty member. No university
should have standards that low.

As it has always been with *all* Microsoft operating systems, it's
necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and copyright laws,
if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on
which it is installed. The only way in which WinXP licensing differs
from that of earlier versions of Windows is that Microsoft has finally
added a copy protection and anti-theft mechanism, Product Activation,
to prevent (or at least make more difficult) the sort of multiple
installations you're asking about.


Bruce Chambers

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"Drew" > wrote in message
...
> I purchased Windows Xp :HOME EDITION... FOR MY HOME, not
> one computer. My home consists of one desktop and one
> laptop, I already payed a rediculous amount for windows,
> I deserve to install it on both computers. According to
> information I just found out today that is impossible.
> Please tell me there is a way to do it. (I havent tried
> it yet, but I some friends told me it was impossible, I
> just wanted to get all the info here before I format my
> laptop and realize they were right.)

[Silly You]

"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in message =
...

> As it has always been with *all* Microsoft operating systems, it's
> necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and copyright laws,
> if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on
> which it is installed.=20

Bwahahahahaha!

Where do you get this crap? Show me where this violates a "copyright =
law", in other words, can bring forth criminal prosecution?

> The only way in which WinXP licensing differs
> from that of earlier versions of Windows is that Microsoft has finally
> added a copy protection and anti-theft mechanism, Product Activation,
> to prevent (or at least make more difficult) the sort of multiple
> installations you're asking about.

How is Product Activation an "anti-theft" mechanism??? If someone steals =
the disk, does it melt, or what?

Seeing you explain this will be fun to see!

[Ken Blake]

In , Drew wrote:

> I purchased Windows Xp :HOME EDITION... FOR MY HOME, not
> one computer.


You may have thought you did, but you also bought it with a
licensing agreement that tells you the rule is one copy (or one
license) per computer.


> My home consists of one desktop and one
> laptop, I already payed a rediculous amount for windows,


Ridiculous? If you thought it was ridiculous, why did you buy it?
Nobody forced it on you.


> I deserve to install it on both computers.


Nonsense. You only thing you deserve is to get what you paid for.
And you did--an operating system with a rule that it can be
installed on a single computer


> According to
> information I just found out today that is impossible.
> Please tell me there is a way to do it. (I havent tried
> it yet, but I some friends told me it was impossible, I
> just wanted to get all the info here before I format my
> laptop and realize they were right.)


There is absolutely nothing new in this respect with Windows XP.
This is the same rule that's been in effect with *every* version
of Windows--one license for each computer. The only thing new
with XP is that there's now an enforcement mechanism.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

Dear Bruce,
I certainly see your point, however windows is not a Car
and it certainly is not a TV. And if you want to go by
your poor comparisons, then it should be licensed to one
PERSON, not computer. However this is not the case, and I
am simply in disagreement with that fact. And now
referring to your rude attack on myself, I sincerely hope
you are not of legal age, because your need to attack
others for no reason except to falsely boost your self-
sense of non-existent intelligence is disappointing. All
I wanted was the information and to display my
dissatisfaction, does that somehow imply that I am
mentally deficient? Wow you must be the best
psychoanalyst on the planet to have come to that
deduction from one online post, how smart you must be. I
salute you, we are all completely not worthy.


Drew
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> Don't be absurd. If you buy one television "for
your home," do
>you "deserve" to leave the store with two? If you buy
one car, do you
>"deserve" to drive two off the dealer's lot? If you
take your
>wife/girlfriend/pet hamster to dinner and the pair of
you collectively
>consume two meals, do you "deserve" to pay for only
one? What is your
>function at Berkley? Judging by your demonstrated
reasoning ability
>(and lack of spelling and English composition skills), I
certainly
>hope that you're neither a student or a faculty member.
No university
>should have standards that low.
>
> As it has always been with *all* Microsoft operating
systems, it's
>necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and
copyright laws,
>if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for
each computer on
>which it is installed. The only way in which WinXP
licensing differs
>from that of earlier versions of Windows is that
Microsoft has finally
>added a copy protection and anti-theft mechanism,
Product Activation,
>to prevent (or at least make more difficult) the sort of
multiple
>installations you're asking about.
>
>
>Bruce Chambers
>
>Help us help you:
>http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>----
>You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't
ever count on
>having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
>"Drew" > wrote in message
...
>> I purchased Windows Xp :HOME EDITION... FOR MY HOME,
not
>> one computer. My home consists of one desktop and one
>> laptop, I already payed a rediculous amount for
windows,
>> I deserve to install it on both computers. According to
>> information I just found out today that is impossible.
>> Please tell me there is a way to do it. (I havent tried
>> it yet, but I some friends told me it was impossible, I
>> just wanted to get all the info here before I format my
>> laptop and realize they were right.)
>
>
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