[Nottingham] query on new laptop

Camilo Mesias camilo at mesias.co.uk
Thu Jul 15 12:22:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Paul Tew <binarybod at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a licensed copy of XP which I use in the VM. It's the Vista Licence
> which came with the laptop that I can't get a refund for. I'm not too
> bothered because I can use that licence for a further VM which will come in
> useful for some testing if I need to do any... Just for the record I don't
> run any unlicensed software, ever. As a police officer it would be a tad
> hypocritical I think.

Does that work then? I wasn't sure if a Windows license that came
bundled with some hardware could be transferred to other hardware (or
virtual hardware)...

It seems morally right but maybe not legally so!

-Cam



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