That actually depends. The last time I bought a laptop with Windows installed on it I made sure to get installation discs as well. I've never tried installing it anywhere else (it's Vista) but I don't see why it won't be possible and legal. And I never compared prices, but I think computers with preinstalled Windows are the same price, maybe a little more expensive. It has something to do with Microsoft not wanting vendors to sell OS-free computers for fear that people would install bootleg versions of Windows.
2011/3/2 Elazar Leibovich <elaz...@gmail.com> > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Stan Goodman > <stan.good...@hashkedim.com>wrote: > >> To me, that means one is better off to take the >> Windows for the sake of the legal disk, which is useful e.g. for use in >> a virtual machine; > > > I'm not a lawyer, but I think that the Windows version you get on a laptop > is an OEM version. That is it costs less since you can use it on the > specific hardware you bought, but not on anything else. So I'm not sure how > legal will it be to use it on a VM. (Maybe MS won't let you do that by EULA, > but the EULA is illegal, however I think that the OEM version must run on > the hardware it was installed on). > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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