Multiple XP Licenses

Al_Mac

Someone at work :rolleyes: has told me if I have XP I can load it onto 5 machines in total :eek: Is this rubbish Tried microsoft website, it wasn't helpful:o

Tallymanjohn

No, it's rubbish and/or illegal - take your pick. 1 licence - 1 machine unless you have a corporate copy (which can cover any particular number of installations but if not acquired legally, as an OEM user, is useless)

nickmack

Al_Mac wrote:

Rubbish will do for me Which is newer ME or 2000

Don't touch ME with a barge pole.

spurs1234

I think what he means is that Microsoft will let you activate it 6 times before they ask questions ! which illegally can be put on 6 machines, but this is illigal as Tallymanjohn pointed out. 1 license 1 machine:rolleyes:

spurs1234

ME is C**P and 2000 just hasnt got the support and is better for businesses

You can purchase OEM copies of Windows Xp for around £60

Savvy_Sue

Am I right in thinking that they're not selling XP licences any more? But if you buy one of the newer licences, I was told I could use it to cover installing XP on another machine. That's what I've done with Office at work: want all the machines running the same stuff!

I hope what I've just said makes sense ... :rotfl:

spurs1234

I havent seen anywhere that they have stopped selling them but i could be wrong, unless you mean the support for windows sp1 ? and below ?

Savvy_Sue

spurs1234 wrote:

I havent seen anywhere that they have stopped selling them but i could be wrong, unless you mean the support for windows sp1 ? and below ?

I don't really know what I mean, because I'm not at work to be able to check the licences.

Maybe I'm getting confused about when I was attempting to ensure we had fully licensed software (which didn't seem to be the situation I'd inherited!) We had a couple of really old machines still running Win98, which we couldn't upgrade to XP, and the advice was to buy XP but keep Win98 installed ...

spacker_2

spurs1234 wrote:

I think what he means is that Microsoft will let you activate it 6 times before they ask questions ! which illegally can be put on 6 machines, but this is illigal as Tallymanjohn pointed out. 1 license 1 machine:rolleyes:

With the WGA its a once only thing now, I just bought a new copy of XP Pro for a colleague and it has to be activated on first use or after 30days thats your lot, their are two methods of bulk license, per seat/per session/per user or per session, per session/per server is about how many connections on a server with current licences and the other is about how many stations/PCs are being used with an individual licence.