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Microsoft Runs Out Of Windows XP Family Licenses
TrAvELAr writes: "'There is a backlog,' says Mark Croft, lead product manager for Windows XP. According to this article on IDG, Microsoft has underestimated it's popularity of the new Windows XP family license. In an effort to slow piracy within single households, Microsoft has introduced the family license which will allow the user to install multiple copies of it's Windows XP operating system at a slightly discounted price of a $10 savings. Croft also states that the savings reflects the cost of Microsoft not having to produce another disc."
You can save alot more than ten bucks if you just install it on all your PC's without telling MS about it.
Does anybody actually pay the extra lisencing fee when they install on more than one household PC?
Besides, if you consider Redhat as a price baseline, and considering the difference in functionality, XP is worth what, about $3.00? That means you can install it on 30 PC's before you get your money's worth.
me: I just upgraded my computer and need to reactivate
M$Tech" (typing sounds) yes sir what did you change
me: my Motherboard, cpu, ram, nic, and harddrive.
M$Tech"I'm sorry you haven't changed 6 items yet please call back once you have changed something else... thank you for calling microsoft today (the click of a phone hanging up)
This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
They will let you install a copy of XP on more than one computer, as long as you pay the discounted price of $189?!?
Oh, yeah, that will stop piracy.
Get a clue Microsoft. If you are going to charge people to install XP on more than one of their own computers, How about an "Add-on" license of say $20? That would make sense.
SIGFEH