[luau] [Article] Preinstalled Windows: AARGH! I can't get it

[John & Sheila Nickerson]

Well, the MS web page doesn't exactly say you can't install another OS or 
remove their OS.

Web page:  http://www.microsoft.com/education/?id=DonatedComputers

Essentially tries to scare recipients of donated computers into not accepting 
machines that don't have a legal copy of the MS OS it shipped with.

Nothing in a MS EULA that I've read prevents my removing any MS product from 
my computer or putting my computer to some other (non MS) use.

Read the web page and see what you think.

John


On Wednesday 01 May 2002 07:31 am, you wrote:
 hey, thhat's a good idea...trash the original hard drive, send it back to MS
 and then install a new one...but would you "have" to install MS on the new
 hard drive? Technically the new hard drive is not part of the "original
 package" so why should it have to contain "original software?"

 Rodney

 > So suppose you R & R the hard drive, and then send the old disk with
 > software to M$ for Xmas. That way, they get their install of software
 > back.  Since the software is still installed on the originally intended
 >  device, have you met the letter of the law???  Also, how does this
 > policy  jive with upgrades?  It seems to me that you should start with
 > a clean  hard drive for each upgrade/install to prevent subsequent
 > troubles.
 >
 > Just a thought,
 >
 > Ben
 >
 >
 >
 > "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems
 >
 >> remain with a machine for the life of the machine."
 >>
 >> If this is intended to mean what it says, then Microsoft is
 >> effectively treating the hardware and the software as a single,
 >> integrated package
 >
 > that
 >
 >> you're not allowed to break up. If the statement is applied without
 >> qualification, then you're in breach of your licence agreement (and/or
 >
 > some
 >
 >> bizarre law they've sneaked past us) if you vape Windows and put
 >
 > something
 >
 >> else on instead, or if (as do many major companies) you buy a bunch of
 >
 > PCs
 >
 >> with one MS installed and then install another....
 >>
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