Windows refund: stymied

Fri Aug 29 16:31:17 UTC 2003

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:09:59PM -0400, Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> I wonder who is responsible/suable for not giving me what I ordered: the 
> windows operating system (for this particular machine, at least!).
> 
> And what if I want to move to another laptop, do I have to pay twice for the 
> OS?

I believe OEM versions might be licensed to that specific machine.  You
probably aren't allowed to reuse it on another machine.  I guess that is
one of the "advantages" Dell has for probably paying less to MS for each
license.

Lennart Sorensen
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