A mouse or keyboard should qualify, but this is a dumb restriction. I would say this is directly because you can buy grey copies for R100, on the other hand, it's probably too late to change their minds, I saw a couple of articles recently saying windows will probably become a linux front-end.ġ) Microsoft's prices are insane and I don't blame anyone buying the grey market keysĢ) DSP licenses are supposed to be sold with hardware, but are frequently just let go to unclog the sales channel. So, any glaring errors? I don't particularly want to rip Microsoft off, but all evidence indicates that they make most of their revenue on Office and Azure, and probably plan to get out of the os business entirely. The licenses may technically not be illegal, but you're probably not eligible for tech support. EDIT OK this is a grey area, as the people giving out the licenses probably bought a volume license, which Microsoft intended to be used by a single company. Not one of MY kidneys obviously, but certainly something that might pass for human in poor light. I'll stake a kidney that microsoft views them as illegal. I think this is probably the price OEM editions are supposed to go for.ĮDIT correction the OEM and DSP packs are the same thing.įinally, just about everywhere you can buy extremely dodgy license codes for a couple of rand. What sort of hardware, a screen, a Microsoft mouse, who knows. Then there's a DSP package on Takealot for R1900, which is only for sale bundled with hardware. Evetech and Wootware are both selling it for R3050. This license costs less, but actually, not that much less. Reverting to the old hardware should re-activate the license. Some wiggle room is allowed for hardware failure, so you can change some parts, but not the entire system. If you then change the mobo & processor, odds are it will break the license. The OEM package allows you to run on one specific computer, basically the first time you install it, the hardware identifiers get hashed into the license or something, and Microsoft keep track of the hash. This costs R4000 on the microsoft site, or R3500 on takealot. You may have to phone microsoft if your hardware changes too often, but within reason, they will accommodate you. The full package allows you to install multiple times on wildly different computers, forever. Windows licensing has always been complicated, so if someone could check my work, I'd be grateful. I'm buying a new computer without an os, and I want to put windows ten on it. ![]()
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