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04-19-2010, 10:23 PM

I think I have seen some reports of people convincing Microsoft to transfer their OEM serial number for Win XP to one for a standard retail install. It would take a call to Microsoft to find out for sure though. I thought I was going to need to do that but I finally got Parallels to recognize the serial number for my Boot Camp partition.

I'd probably take a serious look at Win 7. Microsoft seems to be pushing hard to get to the point where they do not need to actively support XP. In fact, the "end of support" date for Service Pack 1 has come and gone Microsoft Windows: End of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1

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Member Since: Nov 15, 2009 Location: North Louisiana, USA Posts: 3,900 Mac Specs: 2.8 GHz MacBook Pro 10.8,3 8 GB mem, 2.66 GHz Mac Pro - Dead, iPhone 4	04-19-2010, 10:23 PM I think I have seen some reports of people convincing Microsoft to transfer their OEM serial number for Win XP to one for a standard retail install. It would take a call to Microsoft to find out for sure though. I thought I was going to need to do that but I finally got Parallels to recognize the serial number for my Boot Camp partition. I'd probably take a serious look at Win 7. Microsoft seems to be pushing hard to get to the point where they do not need to actively support XP. In fact, the "end of support" date for Service Pack 1 has come and gone Microsoft Windows: End of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1 Sylvester Roque Former Contributing Editor About This Particular Macintosh No matter what time it is where I am it's early morning somewhere in the world. At that hour of the morning follow my advice at your own risk. Anything sounds good before your first cup of coffee
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