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Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
32-bit Win XP w/ VirtualBox on a MBP 15" retina???
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<blockquote data-quote="jt1968" data-source="post: 1518556" data-attributes="member: 301307"><p>Not necessarily. I have been using the same Win XP OEM CD since 2006 for installation on 4 different computers (but only ONE AT A TIME). For example, I used it for a gaming PC I built in 2006, and I uninstalled it from that machine when I sold it to a friend. Then I put it on my new gaming rig, and when it was time to activate, I called MS and activated it over the phone. I did that once more, and finally it's on an old windows laptop. Each time, MS let me call to activate it on the new machine, but I must stress that I never had it running on more than one machine at a time. I do believe I should have the right to transport it to any computer I choose, so,long as that's the only computer it's running on - I paid for it, after all, and if MS keeps letting me re-activate it on different machines, so much the better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jt1968, post: 1518556, member: 301307"] Not necessarily. I have been using the same Win XP OEM CD since 2006 for installation on 4 different computers (but only ONE AT A TIME). For example, I used it for a gaming PC I built in 2006, and I uninstalled it from that machine when I sold it to a friend. Then I put it on my new gaming rig, and when it was time to activate, I called MS and activated it over the phone. I did that once more, and finally it's on an old windows laptop. Each time, MS let me call to activate it on the new machine, but I must stress that I never had it running on more than one machine at a time. I do believe I should have the right to transport it to any computer I choose, so,long as that's the only computer it's running on - I paid for it, after all, and if MS keeps letting me re-activate it on different machines, so much the better. [/QUOTE]
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