On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: > > >> > >> In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who > >> is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) > > > > But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only > > run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft. > > > > I'll try running the image of the partition which I made when I bought it on > > another machine and see what gives if I get the time, but in the past I > > remember trying something similar and I could not get it to work. > > I am not in that to deep. IIRC oem has no meaning in Germany. This is > part of the license agreement what you have to accept after buying the > software. Law says you have to accept it before or it is not part of the > contract. > I never tried lately but you should be able to install from every Win CD > you find and just use the code from that green sticker. There even is a > tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once > hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal > again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done > without installing everything again. > > But again I don't know if it works in every constellation nor if it is > legal everywhere. > > kh >
I don't live -too- far off from Germany and take trips down there every now and again. Perhaps I should consider my next laptop purchase when I'm there. -- Zeerak Waseem
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