90% of Windows XP is obtained from OEMs, like Dell, Gateway, IBM etc. And the licensing for the OEM version of Windows XP is that the OS is STRICLY tied to the hardware it was purchased on.
Therefore the only way boot camp will work legally is for them to use ~retail~ copies of Windows XP Pro, which are few and far in between.
Of course, this could spark people into being buying retail versions of Windows in the future as they want to have the bootcamp possibility. We'll see.
But you'd think MS would be putting out some warnings right about now of oem users not being able to use Apple's bootcamp. That would be interesting. But who knows, maybe MS will just let the users, and then put the hammer down later
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90% of Windows XP is obtained from OEMs, like Dell, Gateway, IBM etc. And the licensing for the OEM version of Windows XP is that the OS is STRICLY tied to the hardware it was purchased on. Therefore the only way boot camp will work legally is for them to use ~retail~ copies of Windows XP Pro, which are few and far in between. Of course, this could spark people into being buying retail versions of Windows in the future as they want to have the bootcamp possibility. We'll see. But you'd think MS would be putting out some warnings right about now of oem users not being able to use Apple's bootcamp. That would be interesting. But who knows, maybe MS will just let the users, and then put the hammer down later