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Licenses: XP to Win2k

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DurocShark

Lifer
Our company is still standardized on Win2k. However, since we were picked up by Washington Mutual and now have to order our equipment through them (through IBM Global Services), all of our PC's are coming with WinXP.

We don't have any available 2k licenses. Our network manager said that XP licenses are legally transferrable to downgrade them to 2k legally.

I thought this was hashed out years ago, and it was determined that a license could ONLY be used for the OS that it was issued for.

Is he right? Anyone know?
 
Since Microsoft wrote the license, only Microsoft can answer that question.

Of course, you could also try to find the contract and actually, like, READ the license or something silly like that. 😉

I'd say call Microsoft.

(And asking for legal advice here is like.... well, I can't come up with a good analogy right now, but I wouldn't trust any legal advice you get here. My own included.)
 
Well, the license does not specifically state one way or the other. Which means it is to be interpreted as only using it for that OS.

But I'm looking for some kind of document (trying to find it on M$ website) that specifically states it one way or the other.

I *have* discovered that certain classes of license can do this, but under what conditions? Sigh..

 
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