Saving Windows XP

[Just A Girl]

well... on the positive side... the odd person like me is set to make a fair bob out of.

A bunch of us with spare xp liscenses (i have 12) are going to sell them on e-bay when microsoft pulls it... lucky me eh? :P

[gagged_Louise]

Well, many of us have borrowed legit boot cd's from friends and relatives to install on our own machines - and have done so without a hitch. So I don\t think there should be any general trouble with using a cd for many different installs in different places.

[Tufty]

There's more info here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6575089.stm

I know it relates to the UK, but I wonder how many other countries will follow?

[Warbaby1943]

There's more info here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6575089.stm

I know it relates to the UK, but I wonder how many other countries will follow?

I would hope it would catch on world wide and show them the consumer is still the boss. Thanks for the link Tufty.

[fetishdj]

This has recently been posted and I think followers of this thread will be interested in it:

http://technologizer.com/2008/08/06/...windows-vista/

It covers some of the issues covered in this thread.