Netbook without windows

[Mordecha Behar]

That actually depends.
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.
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.

2011/3/2 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com>wrote:
>
>>  To me, that means one is better off to take the
>> Windows for the sake of the legal disk, which is useful e.g. for use in
>> a virtual machine;
>
>
> 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).
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