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John
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4th Jan 12 at 11:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2012/jan12/01-04CometPR.mspx

Wonder what's been going on there
Dave
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When I read the title I assumed they'd bought a dodgy batch, not actually copied them themselves
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Maybe that was why Comet was sold for £2
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Surely its just a mechanism for distributing the ISOs? Product key is legitimate.
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Surely its just a mechanism for distributing the ISOs? Product key is legitimate.


More complicated than that I'm afraid. Their licensing models are so complex a lot of companies I imagine are in breach of their terms.

Comet probably thought they could flog their customers copies of XP/Vista for a few quid or whatever if they screwed their HDDs up and didn't have any restore media - technically you are supposed to buy a copy of it from the manufacturer like HP/Fujitsu/Dell/whoever, and not the retailer (unless you buy a retail disc of course, in a proper box etc).

[Edited on 04-01-2012 by Sam]

 
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