Re: FN-FORUM: Supplying and Licensing of Windows

date posted 1st May 2005 10:37

Anthony,

Good luck and best wishes for your business venture and that of your friend.

Your friend should make himself aware of a forthcoming change affecting MS
software. Very soon now (June/July probably) MS will check for legitimate
licence to use its software, especially during the update process. Many
system builders in the past simply copied operating system licences, thus
breaching copyrights. This was and remains rife in countries with low regard
to copyrights ownership. In a bid to counteract this MS will "catch" copied
systems when users attempt an update. Accordingly, your friend may want to
become familiar with what's going by spending some time at
http://msdn.microsoft.com and searching for anything he wants to know in
addition to other very useful advice from Nicola and Kathy.

Mike A.



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