<div dir="ltr">That actually depends.<br>The last time I bought a laptop with Windows installed on it I made sure to get installation discs as well. I've never tried installing it anywhere else (it's Vista) but I don't see why it won't be possible and legal.<br>
And I never compared prices, but I think computers with preinstalled Windows are the same price, maybe a little more expensive. It has something to do with Microsoft not wanting vendors to sell OS-free computers for fear that people would install bootleg versions of Windows.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/2 Elazar Leibovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elazarl@gmail.com">elazarl@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Stan Goodman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stan.goodman@hashkedim.com" target="_blank">stan.goodman@hashkedim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div> To me, that means one is better off to take the</div>
Windows for the sake of the legal disk, which is useful e.g. for use in<br>
a virtual machine;</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'm not a lawyer, but I think that the Windows version you get on a laptop is an OEM version. That is it costs less since you can use it on the specific hardware you bought, but not on anything else. So I'm not sure how legal will it be to use it on a VM. (Maybe MS won't let you do that by EULA, but the EULA is illegal, however I think that the OEM version must run on the hardware it was installed on).</div>
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