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They come wrapped, and with the COA. I have called all four resellers and asked about legality and ability to activate and receive updates, and patches. I'm told by all that they are legal, and they are not violating any agreement with Microsoft, that they have no sales restrictions placed on them at all. It was explained to me by one reseller that since all versions of Vista include Tablet PC functionality, the WinXP version is now obsolete, and this is why MS has let them out to be sold.

Still wary, I called Redmond to ask them. I was told that while the resellers are not doing anything illegal, they are "misunderstanding" their sales agreements. Thanks papa. Usually the value added retailers will sell you a trivially inexpensive piece of hardware to go along with an OEM copy of Windows XP, making it a system builders combo sale for the OS, and legal under their Microsoft contract.

Just use the recovery disc. Alternatively, clean up and configure your system as you wish, and then use a program like Norton Ghost to "ghost" the hard drive and create your own custom recovery disc. I have no faith in the American government, however. I need to have an unbranded version because I want to install it in a VM.

IANAL, but you are probably exercising your fair use rights and should be okay. This does provide a bit of clarity, even if it does seem ambiguous on the surface. As of February 28th , all COA keys affixed to the computer case will have internet activation disabled.

A mandatory phone call will be prompted to receive an override key after answering a series of questions which manually verify them as legitimate. Branded OEM versions [I. This software is intended for pre-installation on a new personal computer for resale.

This OEM System Builder Channel software requires the assembler to provide end user support for the Windows software and cannot be transferred to another computer once it is installed.

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