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The_Potty_1
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I'm buying a new computer without an os, and I want to put windows ten on it. Windows licensing has always been complicated, so if someone could check my work, I'd be grateful.
The full package allows you to install multiple times on wildly different computers, forever. Only one seat may be active at a time. You may have to phone microsoft if your hardware changes too often, but within reason, they will accommodate you. This costs R4000 on the microsoft site, or R3500 on takealot.
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. If you then change the mobo & processor, odds are it will break the license. Some wiggle room is allowed for hardware failure, so you can change some parts, but not the entire system. Reverting to the old hardware should re-activate the license. This license costs less, but actually, not that much less. Evetech and Wootware are both selling it for R3050.
Then there's a DSP package on Takealot for R1900, which is only for sale bundled with hardware. What sort of hardware, a screen, a Microsoft mouse, who knows. I think this is probably the price OEM editions are supposed to go for.
EDIT correction the OEM and DSP packs are the same thing.
Finally, just about everywhere you can buy extremely dodgy license codes for a couple of rand. I'll stake a kidney that microsoft views them as illegal. Not one of MY kidneys obviously, but certainly something that might pass for human in poor light. 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. The licenses may technically not be illegal, but you're probably not eligible for tech support.
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. 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.
www.zdnet.com
www.techradar.com
So, if possible, I'd like to get the R1900 version, but I'm buying the hardware from evetech, and the DSP package is on takealot. Will takealot honour this sale, I'm happy to buy a screen along with the license? It would suck to pay them, and then have them refuse to deliver.
The full package allows you to install multiple times on wildly different computers, forever. Only one seat may be active at a time. You may have to phone microsoft if your hardware changes too often, but within reason, they will accommodate you. This costs R4000 on the microsoft site, or R3500 on takealot.
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. If you then change the mobo & processor, odds are it will break the license. Some wiggle room is allowed for hardware failure, so you can change some parts, but not the entire system. Reverting to the old hardware should re-activate the license. This license costs less, but actually, not that much less. Evetech and Wootware are both selling it for R3050.
Then there's a DSP package on Takealot for R1900, which is only for sale bundled with hardware. What sort of hardware, a screen, a Microsoft mouse, who knows. I think this is probably the price OEM editions are supposed to go for.
EDIT correction the OEM and DSP packs are the same thing.
Finally, just about everywhere you can buy extremely dodgy license codes for a couple of rand. I'll stake a kidney that microsoft views them as illegal. Not one of MY kidneys obviously, but certainly something that might pass for human in poor light. 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. The licenses may technically not be illegal, but you're probably not eligible for tech support.
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. 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.
Open source's Eric Raymond: Windows 10 will soon be just an emulation layer on Linux kernel
Will Windows lose the last phase of the desktop wars to Linux? Noted open-source advocate Eric Raymond thinks so.
www.zdnet.com
Could Windows become part of Linux? This open source legend thinks so
Moving Windows entirely to Linux makes a great deal of financial sense for the software giant
So, if possible, I'd like to get the R1900 version, but I'm buying the hardware from evetech, and the DSP package is on takealot. Will takealot honour this sale, I'm happy to buy a screen along with the license? It would suck to pay them, and then have them refuse to deliver.
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