Thoroughly depressing when ya' think about the '98 days when you could have one copy & install it on all your PC's at home. Buy one copy, have it, own it, sleep good at night and don't have to get hit for another $100 'cuz your 5 year old kid wants to play games on their computer & you have to buy another copy of XP.........or re-install the friggin' thing every 30 days..........niiiice. I just wanna say thanks to slick Willy for encouraging even more hacks & piracy!! Thanks Bill!! Thanks a lot!! :disgust:
I don't even know what to tell folks that want me to build for 'em anymore. Point 'em to where they can pick up a corp copy & have XP free forever???
Buy a Dell & essentially get the same thing??? (Keep in mind, Dells don't ask for crap. You can uninstall/reinstall as many times as you like, swap as much hardware as you'd like.......well, except to a non-dell mobo........and never get a single-solitary "activation" or "call us" warning in your tray......EVER!!!!)
I still have old Win98 licenses in my desk that I think I paid $30 a piece for back when an OEM copy was still $80+. Heck, you can't TOUCH XP for under $79.99 unless you're buyin' it off somebody generous on the forums. Then, of course, you're going to have to inevitably make that call to MS during activation 'cuz every single piece of hardware will have changed. And what do you do?? Do you dare say you *bought* that copy on a forum??
The whole thing makes me sick. I'm not for stealin' but if not a hot copy of XP, why not just a Dell??