Re: Sharing XP on home computers

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:56:01 -0600

Greetings --

    As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and copyright
laws, if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each
computer on which it is installed. The only way in which WinXP
licensing differs from that of earlier versions of Windows is that
Microsoft has finally added a copy protection and anti-theft
mechanism, Product Activation, to prevent (or at least make more
difficult) the sort of multiple installations you're asking about.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Tim Gause" <tgause2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:03cf01c36fd8$dbc844a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Question: Can you share XP software on two computers at
> home or do you have to make a 2nd purchase?

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