You only have to call MS if you reactivate more than 3 times a year, and if you are honestly not pirating then who cares.
If you buy a preinstalled OEM version, such as most laptops then the license is valid only for that computer. If you buy the disk version for a little more it is yours for perpetuity for 1 concurrent use license. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2006 3:32 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Drive imaging Alister Christie wrote on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 3:13 p.m.: > You'd probably have to re-activate windows and is probably against > their license agreement in some way (which I should read one day) - > replacing the entire computer and "ghosting" the system back onto it. I don't imagine it's against their licence agreement as long as you aren't trying to run two copies simultaneously. However you are right, on non-volume licenced versions of Windows you will probably be forced to reactivate which means a support call to Microsoft. If it's a genuine hardware failure I can't see how they could deny reactivation though. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
