Cheapest place to get XP Professional?

TheCityManager

Where's the cheapest place to pick up a copy?

Also can I install on a laptop and PC ???


Laptop is virus ridden ad needs re format



or should I just go W7?

CM

Capt'n Midnight

you will need a separate windows license for each computer , it's ALWAYS been that way

if the computers already have an XP COA then all you need is the CD



If they don't then you need a new license

you cant use an OEM license since it's bound to the machine it was originally supplied with / isn't allowed to be installed on a machine that already has windows

you can only use an upgrade license if it hasn't been used already and your machine has a valid upgradable license already. ( you can use a license that has already been upgraded from a non-oem product, but rare as hen's teeth )

Microsoft stopped selling XP a long time ago and even then it was mostly for preinstalled netbooks , so you are looking at a second handcopy - and it's buyer beware since most legit copies were hovered up by people who hated vista

That's the rules microsoft set, because they make more money selling a new OS and they don't have to spend money supporting it when it goes end of life,

ebay / advets.ie

compare the cost for the windows 7 3 pack if still available
also what is the spec of the machines*?

The company I work for still stock XP Home and Pro but they're OEM copies so they can only legally be sold with "a fully assembled computer system" as it says in the licence.