In message VWWall
wrote:

Bruce Chambers wrote:
Woody wrote:


from what Mike Brannigan , an MS employee and frequent poster , has been
saying of late is that it's up to the oem to determine when the original
machine is no longer the original machine . definately a major retreat
from
earlier interpretations of the ms oem eula .


No, that's no "retreat." That's what the official policy, as stated
by Microsoft employees, has always been.


If I buy a keyboard with my OEM WinXP Pro x64, as one purveyor has been
offering, can I change anything on the original computer on which I
installed the OS as long as I use the same keyboard?

Even stranger is the fact that the keyboard is not even included in the
hash function used to indicate a change in OS installation.

Am I missing something here?

Yes, you're confusing licensing with activation.


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