XP in several laptops?

hI, Is it possible to install same (original) windows in a few laptops?

its cos ive already got windows xp, and if i buy a new lappy without it... will i be able to install it there also?

thanks

 

One copy of XP, one laptop. Anything else is piracy and theft.

 

If you own the copy of XP, you can delete it from the first laptop, transfer the license and then install on the new laptop.

Of course most laptops come with XP pre-installed anyway, so may not be such a huge issue. Also I gather you can only transfer the license IF it is a brought copy of windows XP, if it's an OEM copy you can't transfer the license.

 

How is it theft? You aren't depriving anyone of anything. And it's not piracy, because there are no ships or yelling of "ARRRRR!" included.

It's copyright infringement. You won't get updates, Microsoft will probably put up nag screens saying that your copy isn't WGA certified, etc.

Sorry, I REALLY hate when people call it theft. If I download the bits from the notebookreview.com forums, is that theft? Or is it just an ethereal copy of something that I have an implicit right to do because of the way the web works, and it is against the EULA to do with Windows from what Microsoft tells you?

 

Theft, cause MS doesn't get their money.

If you want to transfer XP, that's fine as long as you wipe the original computer. But the way I originally interpreted it as was: "I want to run the same copy of XP on three different laptops at the same time."

 

Every other comapny lets you download software to as many pcs as you want, as long as those pcs are yours. Microsoft is just after money. Now Vista only lets yiou transfer it twice. Hopefully they are going to learn soon that the public isn't gouing to put up with this ****

 

Shall I claim theft because you have just made a copy of my comment without paying me, and without my license? The mistake that people make is counting software as a physical product, when it's simply a completely artificial scarcity. It's not theft if you walk into my store and then walk back out without buying anything, is it? You "stole" my heated or air-conditioned air and artificial light, you better buy something. Microsoft hasn't LOST anything when someone copies their software, except control over who can make copies of something that is infinitely duplicable. Hence, copyright infringement, not theft.

 

Ever heard of intellectual property? If the person who made it asks for money to use it, they are entitled to sell for profit.

MS sells their product, yes software, for money. So by pirating that software, it is stealing since there is a loss of money.

BTW, pirating is theft. Don't go trying to justify stealing XP, cause you can't.

 

BTW, I read from DailyTech that the EULA as been changed to fix those concerns. Apparently a lot of people felt that way, so they changed it.

 

MS has put alot of efort in making an awsome product...if u want to use it, buy the product and support the company

 

ENTITLED? What are you smoking? That's not how the free market works. By that justification, I am entitled to notebookreview paying me for my comments, just because I created them and feel I should be paid for them. And when I sing a song, I am entitled to payment because people listened to it and made copies of it in their memories. They better not short me, by golly. I'm entitled to that cash that I should have been paid.

It's an artificial scarcity. Calling it "theft" because you don't like it doesn't make it so, and it's muddying the waters. There is no loss of money because none would have changed hands in the first place. Copyright infringement is NOT theft. It is infringing on someone else's exclusive right to copy information. That is ALL, it is NOT theft. Notice how the definition doesn't include "ideas or information"?. Calling a cow a horse doesn't make it any more a horse. Piracy is the act of taking over another watergoing vessel by violence, no matter how the industry uses it.

I wouldn't agree that it's an awesome product, and if you knew better, nor would you. Interesting, commonly understood, standard, yes, but not awesome. It's barely good. However, you should buy it if you are going to use it. I simply object to calling making and installing an unauthorized copy of it theft, piracy, or anything other than what it is, which is "copyright infringement"

 

Its a good product...END of story....

 

I don't pirate XP, I don't agree with the pirate's resoning, but I don't like the side of Microsoft either.

If there was another choice, that could play games (no linux please), I'd jump to it in a heartbeat.

 

I thought because it was from Microsoft that it was a good reason and justifiable. Lol just kiddin

 

Just because one does not like M$ policies --and I sure as heck don't-- it does not give a reason to break laws. Not to mention that certain products, such as Office, are sold with two or three licenses. XP isn't, period. Take it or leave it. What you CAN do, of course, is re-install it on the same computer.

C.

 

By the End User Licensing Agreement, a retail copy of Windows can be installed on one PC at a time.

An OEM copy will only allow you to install it on one PC. The CD key will not work on a second PC anyway.

Of course there will always be ways around the established rules and there will always be those that will capitalize on opportunities, be they legal or not. If you walk through someone's orchard at night and take an apple, but nobody sees you--is it a crime? Technically yes, but you will never be caught or punished for it. Does that make it right? Of course not.

I'm not here to tell you what you can and can't do. That's for every person to decide for themselves.