[DUG] Anyone need XP Pro?

[Xander (GMail)]

You can legitimately downgrade (or upgrade) from Vista to XP at zero cost.
You can phone MS and after some arguing (I know for a fact that MS NZ argued
this point initially with someone I know) they will give in and provide you
with a legitimate XP license key. The ability to do this is documented
somewhere on their website...


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Richard Vowles
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:45 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Anyone need XP Pro?

Conor Boyd wrote:
> I'd love to know what the original poster's opinion on the subject is in
> light of the discussion since the original post?
>
> You're usually pretty quick to jump in with a response on licensing when
> somebody offers a copy of Delphi for sale, Richard... ;-)
>   

I dunno - not up to me really. They are legit copies, legit reasons to 
sell, and yes, he knows they should be sold with hardware and probably 
will throw in a power cord to satisfy the requirement. I'll foward all 
the discussion to him and see what he says. It is especially pertinent 
with people getting machines with Vista on them and they want XP (given 
there is simply no reason to move to Vista whatsoever).

Richard

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