Microsoft confirms Win XP64 will be OEM only

No retail boxes.

Yousuf Khan

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16919

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Yousuf Khan wrote:

No retail boxes.

Yousuf Khan

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16919

I guess they dont wont to hear anybody complain about
absence of the drivers for their arbitrary systems, not
to mention upgrading the old once. OEMs will probably declare
they system config before they get the OS.

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Evgenij Barsukov wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:

No retail boxes.

Yousuf Khan

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16919

I guess they dont wont to hear anybody complain about
absence of the drivers for their arbitrary systems, not
to mention upgrading the old once. OEMs will probably declare
they system config before they get the OS.

That's possible but they're saying you can get an OEM version of Win64 just
by buying some kind of cable.

Yousuf Khan

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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That's possible but they're saying you can get an OEM version of Win64
just
by buying some kind of cable.

Yousuf Khan



Yeah, go do a google search for OEM Office 2003, or OEM Windows XP. You'll
find them out there, and usually you have to at least buy an IDE cable to
get it ( because it must be purchased with "hardware" ). I think all they're
doing is encouraging people to pirate Win64 even more than if it was
available at the local Staples.

Carlo

Note also that MS is also saying the OEM version
is XP Pro, and not XP Home.

I guess they dont wont to hear anybody complain about
absence of the drivers for their arbitrary systems, not
to mention upgrading the old once.

MS is being reasonably clever here. Few existing
AMD64 systems have 64-bit drivers for all the
components in the system. And the do-it-yourself
crowd won't be tying up MS support phone lines,
as OEM Windows probably includes no direct MS
support responsibility.

That's possible but they're saying you can
get an OEM version of Win64 just
by buying some kind of cable.

That's been the case all along, but is a surprising
admission. Normally MS wants individual end users
to think they have to buy the retail products.

Unresolved issues remain:

1. Price. Is this OEM-Pro product priced like the
existing XP32 Pro, or like the version sold for
Itanium workstations? (And we don't know what
the latter is, since it apparently is not sold
separately.)

2. Licensing. Is XP64 an unlimited license, or is
it timed-bombed (subscription). Is access to
WindowsUpdate time-bombed? Any other IP
surprises?

3. Will retail and upgrade XP64 products eventually
be released? If so, will the generic OEM
products remain available? Or will MS force the
OEM path to WHQL-only RecoveryMedia-only?

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The clever part from MS side is not having to do tech support for it.

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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Evgenij Barsukov wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:

No retail boxes.

Yousuf Khan

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16919

I guess they dont wont to hear anybody complain about
absence of the drivers for their arbitrary systems, not
to mention upgrading the old once. OEMs will probably declare
they system config before they get the OS.

That's possible but they're saying you can get an OEM version of Win64
just
by buying some kind of cable.

Yousuf Khan

Alexander Grigoriev wrote:
The clever part from MS side is not having to do tech support for it.

That seems to be case anyways whether you're buying OEM or retail.

Yousuf Khan

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:28:21 GMT, "Yousuf Khan" wrote:

Evgenij Barsukov wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:

No retail boxes.

Yousuf Khan

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16919

I guess they dont wont to hear anybody complain about
absence of the drivers for their arbitrary systems, not
to mention upgrading the old once. OEMs will probably declare
they system config before they get the OS.

That's possible but they're saying you can get an OEM version of Win64 just
by buying some kind of cable.

The cable is the thing that satisfies "must be purchased with hardware".:-)
At one time, NewEgg was showing a power cable Y-adapter as err, suitable
and was "included" in the price of say Windows XPPro-OEM.

Rgds, George Macdonald

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George Macdonald wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:28:21 GMT, "Yousuf Khan" wrote:
That's possible but they're saying you can get an OEM version of Win64 just
by buying some kind of cable.

The cable is the thing that satisfies "must be purchased with hardware".:-)
At one time, NewEgg was showing a power cable Y-adapter as err, suitable
and was "included" in the price of say Windows XPPro-OEM.

I wanted to buy an OEM copy of WinXP at Fry's a while back for a computer we
already had. They said nearly anything in the computer-hardware part of the
store would qualify the purchase, so I bought a couple of power splitters
for $3 or so. Even a bag of screws would've qualified (but I have plenty of
those left over from building computers).

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Scott Alfter said
In article ,
George Macdonald wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:28:21 GMT, "Yousuf Khan" wrote:
That's possible but they're saying you can get an OEM version of Win64 just
by buying some kind of cable.

The cable is the thing that satisfies "must be purchased with hardware".:-)
At one time, NewEgg was showing a power cable Y-adapter as err, suitable
and was "included" in the price of say Windows XPPro-OEM.

I wanted to buy an OEM copy of WinXP at Fry's a while back for a computer we
already had. They said nearly anything in the computer-hardware part of the
store would qualify the purchase, so I bought a couple of power splitters
for $3 or so. Even a bag of screws would've qualified (but I have plenty of
those left over from building computers).

Don't forget that the OEM version is 'forever wedded to' the hardware it
came with .. so I hope you're moving the power splitters along with the
licenses. 8.

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