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					|  Post subject: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:45 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Decidedly uninterested |  |  |  Joined: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:10 pm
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					| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 (I would need it for Quad SLi pffft...) Microsoft web store (download only): £229 Overclockers (OEM - DVD presumably?): £105  _________________  The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway.Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
 
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			| TheMacOne=GCHQ= | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:44 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Bow down to the master |  |  |  Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:38 pm
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					| LeBeourfCurtaine wrote: Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 (I would need it for Quad SLi pffft...) Microsoft web store (download only): £229 Overclockers (OEM - DVD presumably?): £105  The question is: Is the M$ version retail or OEM?    OEM is generally DVD.   
 
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			| LeBeourfCurtaine | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:09 am  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Decidedly uninterested |  |  |  Joined: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:10 pm
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					| Which part of download only  didn't you get...?  _________________  The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway.Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
 
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			| GeneralPublic=GCHQ= | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:52 am  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Saints ftw!! |  |  |  Joined: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:22 pm
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					| LeBeourfCurtaine wrote: Microsoft web store (download only): £229
 transferrable licence, with support from Microsoft Quote: Overclockers (OEM - DVD presumably?): £105
 Quote: The question is: Is the M$ version retail or OEM?    OEM is generally DVD.   MS don't sell OEM directly     non-transferrable, with support from Overclockers  OEM licences are always loads cheaper than any other MS licence, even Select Agreements_________________
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			| Johns | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:32 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Only a 4ilbo ATM |  Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:58 am
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					| Although - If you do get a new system.  Call M$ - And tell them that your mobo fecked up - and they may reset they key for you!  _________________  ------------------------------------- -----------Johns=GCHQ=------------- -------------------------------------
 
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			| Bodopo | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:56 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Pure sex on legs |  |  |  Joined: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:42 pm
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					| What does the term tranferrable licence mean? _________________ 
 
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			| GeneralPublic=GCHQ= | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:38 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Saints ftw!! |  |  |  Joined: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:22 pm
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					| Bodopo =GCHQ= wrote: What does the term tranferrable licence mean? You can legally move the software onto a new PC if you buy a new machine.   With OEM if you bin your PC, you have to buy new OEM licences for the new box. There's bugger all that physically stops you moving an OEM licence - it's only companies that usually worry about it.   One of our customers here got audited last year for things like transferring OEM office licences onto new PCs, and buying OEM licences without the necessary hardware, this cost them a couple of hundred thousand quid  _________________
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					|  Post subject: Re: LOL @ M$   Posted:  Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:35 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Pure sex on legs |  |  |  Joined: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:42 pm
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					| ok thanks for that, i bought an OEM vista when i built this p.c. Never did quite understand why it was so much cheaper than other versions _________________ 
 
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