can i install my XP onto girlfriends laptop

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as title really, i have a legit copy of windows xp mce 2005, i have installed it onto my pc and my kids pc in my home, my girlfried stays at another address, if i installed my copy of xp onto her laptop would it work ok and activate ok and download updates ok, i dont want my serial number blacklisted.

cheers :D
 
erm your already running illegally lol

its only supposed to be installed on 1 pc, never mind yours and your kids lol :D

i think you need to get a couple more copies dude.

1 copy = 1 pc, not 1 copy per house hold lol :D
 
At a home user level you really cannot investigate licenses as the options aren't there for you.
You can't contact a reseller and buy a single license.
As the second post said you are already running illegally if you are using the same copy of MCE 2005 on both your machine and your kids - one copy/license per machine.
So no, you can't legally install it onto your girlfriends laptop and you really need to buy a second copy/license for your home use too.
 
Legally your not allowed to do it, but you won't get blacklisted no.
 
If you install XP on multiple machines using the same key does it not realise this and refuse to validate or something similar?
 
Richdog said:
If you install XP on multiple machines using the same key does it not realise this and refuse to validate or something similar?
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It will fail to activate (legally :p ) but you can install without an internet connection so the actual install step there is no way it knows (only thing it checks is a valid cd key). Corp/Academic versions are not tied to serial keys either so they will activate on different hardware..
 
Una said:
Corp/Academic versions are not tied to serial keys either so they will activate on different hardware..
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Not true. MSDN:AA copies still require activation and Volume Media are tied to VLA product keys although they don't require activation.

Burnsy
 
well i was hoping to install it and activate it in order to download the updates and hope it would find most of the drivers for her laptop but it looks like that wont be possible as it sounds as though it wont activate and allow updates is this correct.

thanks for all the replies guys i never knew it was one copy per pc i thought it was per household lol :D
 
MS are rip off
If I had more then 1 PC i'd use the same license.
IMO if you buy something you should be allowed to use it all you like. MS aren't going to change my opinion & i'm going to ignore theres.!
 
no_1_dave said:
MS are rip off
If I had more then 1 PC i'd use the same license.
IMO if you buy something you should be allowed to use it all you like. MS aren't going to change my opinion & i'm going to ignore theres.!
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HAHA, your hilarious....You're not serious are you? :confused:

Burnsy
 
no_1_dave said:
MS are rip off
If I had more then 1 PC i'd use the same license.
IMO if you buy something you should be allowed to use it all you like. MS aren't going to change my opinion & i'm going to ignore theres.!
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Ah bless!
You don't like the way Microsoft license so they must be a rip-off.
You obviously know nothing of licensing or really how Microsoft works.

Your opinion really doesn't matter - Microsoft own the IP and it is up to them how they license their product.
Don't like it? Don't agree with it?
Well there are many distributions of Linux that you can install for free.

£60 - £100 per PC for a copy of Windows which will last you for years and is used daily.
How can you describe that as a rip-off?
 
no_1_dave said:
MS are rip off
If I had more then 1 PC i'd use the same license.
IMO if you buy something you should be allowed to use it all you like. MS aren't going to change my opinion & i'm going to ignore theres.!
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howabout nvidia are a rip off. that nice card in your sig can only be used in one machine at a time? or do you think you should get as many as you need for the price of one?? :confused:
 
marc2003 said:
howabout nvidia are a rip off. that nice card in your sig can only be used in one machine at a time? or do you think you should get as many as you need for the price of one?? :confused:
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That's obviously different.
It cost's money to produce each & every graphics card...
Once Windows have been developed it costs practically nothing (0.0001p(?)) for each copy they print. So why should we then have to pay them for installing it on more then 1 machine? They would sell enough still to make billions of $ if they let home users install it on more then 1 PC.

MS only allow it to be used on 1 PC at a time because it's software, so they can. It can be easily implemented into software. I'm sure that if hardware vender's would love to do the same thing, only they can't.!
 
no_1_dave said:
Once Windows have been developed it costs practically nothing (0.0001p(?)) for each copy they print.
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Well that's not quite true either. What about the support costs and the updating through patches and hotfixes? That's not cheap.

Even if it were free for MS, what about the huge developement cost (iirc $10bn for vista?). Needs to be recouped somewhere.

Burnsy
 
Hornchurch said:
Vista cost $10 billion? Oh dear, it's hardly different from xp..
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Spoken like a person who looks no deeper than the desktop.
Vista was a new OS from the ground up in the same way Windows 2000 was.
Windows XP was built mainly on the old Win2k code.
Vista however was a re-write from the ground up so of course the development costs were high.
 
no_1_dave said:
That's obviously different.
It cost's money to produce each & every graphics card...
Once Windows have been developed it costs practically nothing (0.0001p(?)) for each copy they print. So why should we then have to pay them for installing it on more then 1 machine? They would sell enough still to make billions of $ if they let home users install it on more then 1 PC.

MS only allow it to be used on 1 PC at a time because it's software, so they can. It can be easily implemented into software. I'm sure that if hardware vender's would love to do the same thing, only they can't.!
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It is called licensing and it is where all the money is made by software houses.
I don't know what world you live in, but in the real world most companies have share holders and those share holders want to see a retun on their investment and that return is in money.

Licensing is the classic way of a company making money - it is the perfect model because the item continues to make you money long after development.
However development doesn't come cheap, support for the product doesn't come cheap and future development doesn't come cheap.

You have put a <1p value on each copy of Windows.
A product that cost millions to develop, continues to cost to support and will continue to cost while it is updated and service packs produced right up tot he point when the OS is simply no longer supported - in around 5-6 years time.
You are certainly not looking any deeper than the value of the DVD the OS is written to with your valuation...shouldn't take anyone with much intelligence to realise that the actual value and cost runs a hell of a lot deeper.
 
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