muddycoffee Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 With a bit of luck Microsoft will be taken to court by the European supreme court over restrictive practices with these rules over what hardware changes are allowed, by people lucky enough to be granted the privilage of buying their software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I heard today on the radio that Vista bought in the USA is half the price of it in the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LL200 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 dunno about vista but i bought the oem version of xp home for my mum last month from ebuyer without buying anything else, no questions asked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonman Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I'm wondering how much of this is because you are in the position of doing this for a business... If we home users can do the same, then great! Or does the fact that you're doing it professionally never get mentioned when you call them? Nope the fact that im doing it for business/professional reasons has never been brought up, they are always more than happy to help, although i often seem to get one chap who is straight out of the "robocop" stature,the conversation goes as follows: Me: hi, i would like to re-activate my windows please. m/soft: how many pc's is this installed on? me: just the one im about to install it on. ms: so how many pc's is that? me: er.....well it will be 1 once you activate it! ms: so how many altogether? me: erm....ive just told you it will be THIS ONE ONLY!! ms: so it will be just this one? me: AAGGGGHHH yes just this one!!! ms: ok, thank you sir, your code is a follows......... i swear he knows its me because he drags that one question out time and time again, yet any other operator i get doesnt need to ask the question more than once. in response to the question above i too have had to re-activate on upgrades ranging from Mobo + cpu, and it even required and upgrade on a change of graphics card once (although this was one change of several so it could have been totting them up) in these instances ive been explained that im an engineer trying out different configs on the machine, and again they have always been fine. In my opinion (and i could be very wrong!) i think it also matters how you apply yourself if you have to phone up to re-activate on a different machine, for example if you phone up and say, "i was just wondering if i could......etc;" then dont be surprised if they try and fob you off with the EU software law etc, however if you phone confidently and say "im wanting to re-activate my software please due to configuration changes made to the system" it sounds more assertive and demanding! i remember an expierenced consultant who we used to employ while i was still learning the ropes after a lay off phoning up and having a slanging match with somebody who refused to activate it, i simply left it till the next morning and phoned up and very politely asked for my re-activation code with no problems!! (he was not amused at being upstaged by some less than half his age/experience!!) MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LL200 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I heard today on the radio that Vista bought in the USA is half the price of it in the UK its the same price in pounds as it is in dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonman Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 dunno about vista but i bought the oem version of xp home for my mum last month from ebuyer without buying anything else, no questions asked. yup correct:thumbsup: thats where i purchase my oem's from as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 interesting point on OEM license purchases buying Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition (OEM) from CCL can be done with any hardware purchase even a mouse CCL Says It´s a sad reality that many people out there have illegal Operating Systems on their PCs. Many won´t even know that it´s illegal, as it was installed by a friend or a relative who just wanted to help them out. Others choose to acquire "cracked" or "hacked" copies because they think Windows XP costs hundreds of pounds and they want to save money, but all they do is leave themselves open to the viruses and spyware that software pirates work into their discs. There is a solution. It´s cost effective, safe and most importantly, it´s legal. Windows XP OEM is usually shipped only with a new PC, but in a drive to make computing safer for everyone, Microsoft have now declared that it can be sold with just about any hardware purchase. Even a cheap mouse such as the one this link points to! now the OEM versions of Vista they are selling don't include the above paragraph on their product pages but it may be worth giving them a call and seeing if it does apply, after all a mouse is a lot cheaper than a mobo, hdd or cpu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonman Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 interesting point on OEM license purchases buying Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition (OEM) from CCL can be done with any hardware purchase even a mouse now the OEM versions of Vista they are selling don't include the above paragraph on their product pages but it may be worth giving them a call and seeing if it does apply, after all a mouse is a lot cheaper than a mobo, hdd or cpu indeed a lot of small pc shops will do this to comply in a "sense", there's a couple near me who will give you a free ide cable or charge you an extra 4 quid and bung in a floppy disk drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troyhark Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 its the same price in pounds as it is in dollars. If you buy an Adobe product online, you buy it from the same server as an American does and still pay extortionate British prices. I reckon I can go to the US buy a copy of CS3 suite on DVD/CDs have a nice holiday, pay import taxes and still save money over buying it as a download. Alternatively I can get a friend to buy a copy and ship it to me and save even more money. Charging more when you had to physically ship a product from the US to UK made sense as there was an extra cost involved. But I bet the weak dollar is making Abobe a lot of money when we pay in foreign currency, it also never goes down in price as the dollar plummets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 even if you go to the country of purchase you'll find the price magically changes the second you put your credit card details in saw a thing on tv a while back iTunes in france charges 9p per tune here it was around 14p and even if you went to france plugged your laptop in and purchased there it still cost 14p, and a friend buying it and giving it to you was illegal somehow, the copyright act got invoked or it was classed as illegal file sharing or something we get ripped off, basically because the suppliers know they can get away with it having the friend buy it and ship it in is the best idea I've heard though, I like that idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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