On 02/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">stephen welch</b> <<a href="mailto:stephenwelch@hotmail.com">stephenwelch@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You try one of the councils (Wolves, Sandwell or Birmingham) The contact<br>for software at Link2ICT in crum is Harry Watkins. It is a long shot but<br>they may be able to help.<br><br>The other option is local schools it is rare that the old NT / 2000 boxes
<br>are put to good use once they are replaced by 2003. I see lots of NT 4.5<br>discs / CD's stuffed away in small dark and dusty cupboards<br><br>Or if you can lay your hands on the MDSN pack they have a number of software
<br>titles included and one used to be Advanced 2000 - not sure what the terms<br>of the agreement are though with these.</blockquote><div><br>This is illegal<br><br>Operating system software, such as Windows can not be transferred due to the wording
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of the licences; however Microsoft applications such as Outlook and Office can be transferred<br>
legally. </div><br>Other licenses that cannot be sold are ones obtained through some other process other than buying the software. Examples of these are OEM Software (has to stay with the original equipment) and MSDN or Technet licenced products. As these licenses are aquired at subsidized rates.
<br><br>As some of you know we are an authorised Microsoft reseller, I have checked with MS this morning.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Dick Turpin<br><br>Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.