[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Mike Easter]

Porpoise wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> Those people who have 'portable' corporate versions of XP on disk, or
>> those people who have pirated portable corporate versions as an ISO
>> are in better shape than the people who just have a legal bloatware
>> installed version and no XP disk.
>>
>
> Only for as long as they work for the company holding the licence(s)

I don't know much about XP licensing, home or corporate - except that
the corporate is more portable than the home.

>> Naturally it isn't that hard to get one's hands on such an ISO and a
>> keygenerator, so that is also a possible solution to the problem.
>
> Easy to get hold of - not so easy to actually use (unless you don't
> need to connect it to the internet, so don't need to keep it fully
> patched with security updates). The first time you need to run
> windows update, you're stuffed by WGA.

I also am not experienced in XP piracy except to the extent of getting
the ISO and the keygen.

> They're even getting a lot more stringent viz-a-viz OEM discs I had
> to jump through hoops to prove
> I purchased it with relevant hardware to get my last one activated!
> This after my "corporate" version became "unlicenced" (through WGA)
> and I had to bite the bullet and actually buy an installation disc
> with my new MB & Processor!

Buy what kind of 'installation disk'?  A genuine MS XP disk or a OEM
restore disk?  If it was an OEM restore disk, were you able to do a
clean install of XP from the OEM disk or was it simply an image of XP +
bloatware as came with the machine?

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin