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ignore me...
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YOU KNOW BETTER THAN TO ADVOCATE PIRACY ON THESE FORUMS.
  
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Or certain areas of the body being used as CD racks 
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ricedg (25/07/2008)
Nothing stopping anyone buying a "full" licence, then you can transfer it as many times as you like.
Of course it costs more...
Actually, I think that even then there are limits.
In theory, you can move retail XP to a new machine as long as you have removed it from the first.
In practice, I would be surprised if you can activate it infinite times.
Plus, once XP is no longer supported, I expect activation will eventually cease to work, full stop.
Vista retail limits you to 1 transfer of license only.
If you just want this PC for email, word-processing etc, and the web, try a Linux distribution, it won't cost you anything but time, and you may well find that you like it!
(plus you won't need a 3rd party firewall, antivirus, antispyware, no defrags, less reboots, etc...)
Of course if it is games you're after, you'll probably have to cough up for a license, if you can find somebody that is still selling XP, that is.
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wyliecoyoteuk (25/07/2008)
Actually, I think that even then there are limits. In theory, you can move retail XP to a new machine as long as you have removed it from the first. In practice, I would be surprised if you can activate it infinite times. Plus, once XP is no longer supported, I expect activation will eventually cease to work, full stop. Vista retail limits you to 1 transfer of license only. Of course if it is games you're after, you'll probably have to cough up for a license, if you can find somebody that is still selling XP, that is. Other than anti-M$ biased FUD, do you have any evidence to support those statements?
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Slipstreem (25/07/2008)
wyliecoyoteuk (25/07/2008)
...if you can find somebody that is still selling XP, that is.
I'm having trouble finding anywhere that isn't still selling XP. You seem to have a very biased attitude when it comes to M$ OSes. 
Cheers, Slipstreem. 
I don't see how pointing out that XP is no longer "officially" available is "very biased"?
I was merely warning the op that it is not going to be around for much longer.
Also, depends who your suppliers are.
Dell for example, will only sell you XP Pro as an extra cost downgrade from Vista, i.e. you have to buy Vista with the PC, and the XP downgrade is £10 extra.
They still have XP pro upgrade available at present-for £176!
Obviously some suppliers have existing stocks, but these will not be replenished.
XP home will continue to be available as OEM-only for "low power" Laptop PCs until June 2010.
(or so I have been advised by Microsoft-My company is a member of the Microsoft Partner Program)
At least 3 of my suppliers no longer supply any version of XP, but then I am buying for a business, so they never supplied XP home, anyway.
I would think that jumping on anything that could be remotely construed as "anti-MS", even when it is well meant advice, is more biased than my original post 
Edited: to change "low power PCs " to "low power Laptop PCs" -apparently Desktop PCs are specifically excluded.
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A quick Google reveals that many suppliers still have it in stock. We're here to guide people, not to misguide them. The OP is hardly gong to deliberately wait until all stocks are exhausted before he goes looking for one, is he? He needs an answer fot the here-and-now, not a prediction of the future.
Cheers, Slipstreem.
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