Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How complicated is it? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Raz
I did not get a refund , i just bought a machine with freedos instead and got a discount of 200 shekels. 2011/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com: Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Boris shtrasman
On 21/12/2011, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How complicated is it? I remember that we talked about that in 2008/9 , I think the

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Raz wrote: I did not get a refund , i just bought a machine with freedos instead and got a discount of 200 shekels. I'm not sure that's going to happen much longer. With Windows 7 (and now XP too) Microsoft no longer requires a magic number (license key) to

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 12/21/2011 03:26 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How complicated is it? Zvi Devir has done it and ran a Haifux lecture. I believe the slides and

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Lior Kaplan
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Michael Vasiliev mycr...@infoscav.netwrote: On 12/21/2011 03:26 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How complicated

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 12/21/2011 03:57 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Raz wrote: I did not get a refund , i just bought a machine with freedos instead and got a discount of 200 shekels. I'm not sure that's going to happen much longer. With Windows 7 (and now XP too) Microsoft no

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:42:24 +0200 Michael Vasiliev mycr...@infoscav.net wrote: On 12/21/2011 03:26 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Ori Idan
I wrote about it in 2008: http://blog.oriidan.info/tag/%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%99/ Sorry for top posting, I send it from a mobile... -- Ori Idan On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:42:24 +0200

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Michael Vasiliev wrote: I assume you mean SLIC in the ACPI, so your computer just have a license key embedded in it's writable CMOS memory, so what? How's that changing anything? The data in Windows distribution has always been free, you're paying per license