Thread: Upgrade Windows ME to Windows XP Home
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Old 28th-October-2005, 07:09 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Upgrade Windows ME to Windows XP Home
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Originally Posted by David Franklin
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:

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.
I wonder if it's OK as long as you move the mouse you bought at the same time to the new system, too?
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