[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Porpoise]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Yes but they have the corporate licences well under control now with the 
advent of WGA

>
>>> 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.

Me neither but what was previously a corporate licence installed serial no. 
finally fell at the final hurdle of WGA

That's what necessitated me getting an EOM version installation disc (a full 
installation disc but without the box and documentation that you get with 
the retail version). The EOM disc was what you used to get with a new 
machine.

>
>> 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?

A Genuine OEM MS XP Full installation disc as outlined above. I don't know 
if M$ even still do them now since all their crackdowns on OEMs selling them 
to the public outside the terms of their agreements with M$. These days you 
only seem to get the system builder's restore image discs that you 
mentioned, unless you buy the full retail version (which is a real shit when 
you've already been forced to buy the licence when you bought the machine), 
so effectively, you're forced to buy the licence twice!