'Legalizing' Windows
Posted: 20 Feb 2013, 15:58
Inherited security maintenance on a site. One of the systems is running on a XP Pro box for which no license is to be found. No sticker on the box, nothing. Company that did the installation has vanished.
Had problems with the machine last week. Insisted on being activated when logging on and when you do so it just tells you it had already been activated and goes back to log in screen. Extended the trial period so everything is running (cue inheritance rights on a contract I don't really want) for now but I'm still stuck with no license.
And this is where the problems start. I could upgrade the box to Win 7, but the vendors of the software in question charge the nominal fee of R3000 per day to re-install. Excluding toll fees, R3/km, a R300 call-out fee and VAT.
Hell will freeze over first.
So question:
Can I - legally - buy a second hand XP Pro machine and use that license?
Had problems with the machine last week. Insisted on being activated when logging on and when you do so it just tells you it had already been activated and goes back to log in screen. Extended the trial period so everything is running (cue inheritance rights on a contract I don't really want) for now but I'm still stuck with no license.
And this is where the problems start. I could upgrade the box to Win 7, but the vendors of the software in question charge the nominal fee of R3000 per day to re-install. Excluding toll fees, R3/km, a R300 call-out fee and VAT.
Hell will freeze over first.
So question:
Can I - legally - buy a second hand XP Pro machine and use that license?
