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Originally Posted by Clive Long Amazon want 95 squiddlies for this upgrade software - that's tantamount to theft in my book. |
You can buy a completely legal OEM licensed version of XP Home for about £50 + vat
here. The catch is you have to buy it with a piece of computer hardware - from the website:
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Microsoft OEM Operating system software MUST be purchased with a non-peripheral hardware component or fully assembled computer system. Non-peripheral hardware consists of a motherboard, graphics card, memory module, hard disk, keyboard or mouse. Full retail boxed products must be ordered if no hardware/PC system is to accompany the sale.
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But, you can buy a mouse from the same place for
50p!!!.
The main caveat is that you're more limited about moving an OEM license to a new machine (i.e. you can't). I'm not sure how easy it is to do so with a non-OEM license either though.