It's an interesting question: What single piece of hardware is the OEM license bound to, if any? If you buy a computer and upgrade every single component in it except for the case, is it still the same computer? Is your license still valid? (I would say that yes, it is).
If so, if you take every single component out of your OEM licensed computer and put it in a new case is your license still valid?
What's going on?
poor_boi
Microsoft starts out that page posing some really interesting questions:
Will the computer run the software that your school currently uses? What is the cost of integrating the hardware into your existing networks? Will your teachers or students need additional training to use the computer?
And then proceeds to totally ignore those three important topics and prattles warning schools about operating system licenses. What the feck? Makes me ill.
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It's an interesting question: What single piece of hardware is the OEM license bound to, if any? If you buy a computer and upgrade every single component in it except for the case, is it still the same computer? Is your license still valid? (I would say that yes, it is). If so, if you take every single component out of your OEM licensed computer and put it in a new case is your license still valid? What's going on? poor_boi
Microsoft starts out that page posing some really interesting questions:
Will the computer run the software that your school currently uses?
What is the cost of integrating the hardware into your existing networks?
Will your teachers or students need additional training to use the computer?
And then proceeds to totally ignore those three important topics and prattles warning schools about operating system licenses. What the feck? Makes me ill.
poor_boi