Windows Vista Licensing
Posted by coldtobi | 10 Jul, 2007, 01:15Yesterday, my Laptop suddenly died. Something with the power supply on the mainboard. I spent half the evening disassembling and finding the bug, but it seems deep in the power supply part of the mainboard. Well, that's off topic.
As I currently *really* need a laptop, I hit the store today and left it with a brand new Acre Aspire 5633. This is a really nice machine, and I think you gonna read more about it later, especially about the debian installation i plan.
Debian. Yes, I I do not plan to use - or even boot - the preinstalled "windows vista home premium", therfore I am planning to sell it. But it is an OEM, which should be not ap problem, as selling this is something Microsoft cannot forbid me, even if they'd love to do: The tried it already to forbid with XP, but the courts ruled that Microsoft is not allowed to forbid selling it.
But even if I sell my license, will the buyer be able to use it? I do not know, and I am browsing the web for too long to find the information. Can anyone help?
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Daniel : Send it back
10/07/2007, at 01:26 [ Reply ]
Maybe you can give it back to acer. I know that dell takes unused windows (and ms works) licences back, so it might be worth a try.
[coldtobi] not that easy. I read reports, that ACER will not refund, even if the EULA was refused.