On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:19 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2007 17:13, Mike McMullin wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:14 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > WinXP Home Edition cost 199 USD, Professional is almost impossible > > > to buy today, Vista is 500 dollars. Get your facts straight > > > > XP-Pro OEM for $145 USd (includes Michigan Sate Taxes, etc.), in > > the last 4 weeks, proper "boxed" version. > > Go to Fry's (or it's equivalent in your area (*)) and buy a chassis fan > (or a power supply or RAM or a mainboard or a disk drive or a cabinet, > etc.) and get an OEM version of Windows for considerably less. > > I'm sad to say I need to run Windows, but I now have two OEM licenses, > and I suspect that will suffice for the foreseeable future. God, I hope > it does... > > (*) "Equivalent" means a vendor that sells Windows OEM discs with > virtually any hardware purchase.
I bought XP-Home Upgrade, at Price Costco for $119Can last year, I saw it at Radio Shack for $200 Can and passed on the price. I only wanted the OS for my son who insisted on Windows for his desktop system. Now I need to learn how to make it work in my mostly Linux home network. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
