Windows 7 Saying "Windows is not genuine" ?

"(PeteCresswell)"
Fri, 23 Jun 2017
14:13:08 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Or are some vendors able to purchase OEM versions from MS in bulk
even though they do not use them to manufacture PCs?

Yes.


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"David B." news:XC43B.78893$PC4.61077
@fx08.fr7 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:49:58 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

On 23-Jun-17 2:04 AM, Good Guy wrote:
Once a thief always a thief.

Once a 'BlackHat' always a 'BlackHat'?

Nope.




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On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:26:13 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

Per Paul:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16832416804

If you were expecting a $50 one, a chopped up MSDN subscription
one or the like, well, that's gambling.

Nah.... A hundred bucks is chicken feed in the context of 5+ years of
use.

Which is one reason why I have never had any hesitation (well, not
much) in buying multi-hundred currency-unit machines for personal use.
Amortised over their life, they tend to cost far less than I spend on
soft drinks, electricity or the UKland TV tax.
A good but expensive box is a good investment. Though the initial
cost can be scary when one is not wealthy.
The "Boots Theory of Economics", as proposed by Mr. Grimes.

I have no recollection of what I paid for my current version,
but it wasn't anything even close to as low as fifty bucks. If
somebody put a gun to my head and forced me to guess, I would guess
closer to two-hundred.

That is *very* strange.
To me it is strange but that could be projection.
Were someone to put a gun to my head and force me to guess, I would
ask them *WHY* they were doing that. It seems like an excessive waste
of effort to answer such a pointless question.
Then I would ask them where they got a gun in UKland. I have few if
any ideas about how to do such a thing and the answer could be
intriguing. Then I would probably ask them what the devil they were
doing in my house and whether they would prefer tea to coffee. It is
important to be a good host even to burglars and other intruders.
At some point in the seemingly endless stream of interrogatives I may
get around to mentioning wishing to know whether or not the firearm
was loaded. It does make a great difference to my range of responses.
Coming up with an actual magnitude which answers their enquiry would
be so far down on my list of things to do at that point that both of
us, and the gun, would die of old age well before I reached it.


NewEgg is one of my "GoTo" suppliers - they and B&H Photo have proven
themselves on the occasional times when things have gone sideways over
the years.... It's not whether things go wrong, it's what the supplier
does when they do go wrong.

Very true, and thank you for this thread. I've learned lots from it.
You ask good questions.
Thank you, too, to all who answered. You give good information.
Am I allowed to say that on the Internet?
Mand.