[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

[Robert Ameeti]

At 9:19 AM -0800, 4/6/06, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>At 7:55 AM -0700 4/6/06, Robert Ameeti wrote:
>>At 6:27 AM -0700, 4/6/06, Kunga wrote:
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>>>OEM XP Pro is only $100.
>>
>>Unless you are a System Builder, that license will not work for a 
>>user. You must be a builder of computers to use that license.
>
>Not true.  You can buy OEM versions with a Motherboard or Hard 
>Drive, though I've yet to see a copy for $100, around here they're 
>$150.

They can be bought for $100. The fact is that you can buy anything 
you want for near any price you want. But what I said was that the 
license would not be correct. Microsoft does authentication where 
they examine the components of the computer that you are installing 
the OS on. That authentication process gathers up info such as the 
RAM, Hard Drive, Ethernet MAC address etc. The authentication process 
can easily see that the MAC address is assigned to Apple and since 
Apple is not an authorized System Builder, the OEM license can prove 
to be invalidated. I do have clients that can not get Security 
Updates due to the lack of the authenticator being able to validate 
their installation.

Yes, this can be worked around by downloading the updates manually 
but is that what people are going to want to hassle with? I think not.
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Robert Ameeti

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
            -- Philip Johnson
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