On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Carl Denk wrote: > Maybe there is a gray area of OEM licenses. The case I said was a > large OEM (Compaq), and probably the same applies to HP, Dell, and > similar who handle the licenses . I see OEM versions of XP for sale, and > I would think the license would go back to Microsoft on those, and they > could be moved to another machine, but I have o experience to confirm or > deny that. ~) Note that I did not plan to have one license on more > than 1 machine. What I see here is that those OEM licenses (for small shops with officially Microsoft endorsement) are for DIY people who want to build their own machine. It is not that cheap but you can get it. There are also shops who sell retail version of Chinese and Japanese version of XP so that people who would use those versions can do it since most of the PCs here will be preloaded with English version of Windows XP/Vista. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist