Hard drive fails and your XP OEM license is toast? Power supply fails and your XP OEM license is toast?
Fairly ridiculous you must agree. I think the point of that clause in the license is to reinforce that some subset of computer hardware parts are not sufficient to allow the sale of an OEM license. The sum of the computer parts must be enough to create a working computer. You know how it goes, some vendors would sell an OEM license and ship a mouse with it as the hardware requirement of the OEM license. Carl -----Original Message----- From: E. Peeters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSFT licensing: Multiple hard disks, single computer, single drive at once Afraid I'm not going to help, but an OEM license states that a system is the sum of: -a CPU; -a motherboard; -a power supply; -a hard drive. Not a lawyer, but my guess is, change one of the components above and you have a different system. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MSFT licensing: Multiple hard disks, single computer, single drive at once Hi everybody (Hi Dr. Nick!)... Scenario: One computer. Computer has a removable hard disk drive (like one of these: http://tinyurl.com/CRUDataPort3). Only one spot in the computer for the removable carrier, so only one hard disk at a time can be used. There will be several hard disks, each with its own installed instance of Windows and Office. But they will only be used with that one host PC, and only one at a time. (The disks contain data we are required to keep physically separated -- by an "air gap" -- at all times.) Question: Do I need a license seat for each hard disk? My take: Only one license per computer should be needed. It's all one computer. I won't ever be able to *use* more than one seat at a time. When it comes to OEM licenses, the license is part of the computer it is sold with. If I take the disk out of the PC and put it in a different PC, I need a license for that other PC. If that principle is applied uniformly, a license purchased with a computer, used with that computer, with multiple hard drives, is okay. Microsoft Sales verbally insists I need a license seat for each, and I cannot find a formal document stating otherwise. Does anyone have a URL or document title I can refer to that contradicts this? Or are we going to have to buy several seats of Vista and Office for this one PC? Retail box for Vista, too, since OS Volume Licenses are "Upgrade Only". I'm going to end up having to spend over $4000 on Vista and Office licenses on this one PC! -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
