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In ,
David Candy typed:
No. It depends who you buy it from. Each computer mfg pays varing
amount of cash to MS. At the most expensive is small stores. The =
sell
genuine MS OEM Disk. There is no difference to proper copies except
the company agrees to support it and it will refuse to upgrade. A
large company pays least and probably doesn't supply a disk.

But you can buy home in a retail store. Most OSs are sold OEM with
new systems.

In ,
David Banks typed:
Hi

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Also to suggest the use of backup is laughable, the backup =
program
is not included on the standard XP installation!!!!

Are all OEM installations XP Home edition then?


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Well in that case, if the OEM is Pro then backup IS installed by =
default (or
should be....)
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You don't seem to have the idea of what an OEM XP CD is. That =
particular OEM XP CD 'could' include all XP apps that are available on =
the 'upgrade' or full retail version. OTOH - that particular OEM XP CD =
'could' include nothing but the 'install' files. OEMs are allowed to =
include/exclude anything they like - unfortunately.

Will



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