Install NT4 instead of legal OEM Home XP

[Lorenzo Jimenez]

Hi there,

I purchased an OEM Home XP and Visual C# Standard
I want to develop Internet Apps
I dont want to use Free Matrix software

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows NT 4.0 used instead of
Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 4.0?

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows 2000 Pro used instead
of Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 5.0?

Please help!!!
I am on the crossroad of choosing to develop in .Net or Java.

Thanks!

 

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings

You must purchase a copy of the software to use it. Product keys are not
interchangeable.

Hi there,

I purchased an OEM Home XP and Visual C# Standard
I want to develop Internet Apps
I dont want to use Free Matrix software

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows NT 4.0 used instead of
Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 4.0?

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows 2000 Pro used instead
of Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 5.0?

Please help!!!
I am on the crossroad of choosing to develop in .Net or Java.

Thanks!

 

[Gary Tait]

Hi there,

I purchased an OEM Home XP and Visual C# Standard
I want to develop Internet Apps
I dont want to use Free Matrix software

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows NT 4.0 used instead of
Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 4.0?

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows 2000 Pro used instead
of Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 5.0?

Please help!!!
I am on the crossroad of choosing to develop in .Net or Java.

Thanks!

What do you mean burn? Do you mean copy someone elses copy to use
yourself, then no. If you mean to simply backup an original CD you own
the license for, incase it failse, or to keep the original someplace
else for save keeping and use the copy, generally yes.

 

[A.A. Fussy]

Usually-copyright laws in many countries permit making a backup copy of
software cd for personal use

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I purchased an OEM Home XP and Visual C# Standard
I want to develop Internet Apps
I dont want to use Free Matrix software

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows NT 4.0 used instead of
Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 4.0?

¿It is LEGAL to burn an OEM Windows 2000 Pro used instead
of Home XP so I can use Visual C# with IIS 5.0?

Please help!!!
I am on the crossroad of choosing to develop in .Net or Java.

Hi

If you had purchased a OEM WinXP Pro, you could have downgraded to Win2k or NT
4.0, but with WinXP Home you can't.


A "Downgrade Rights Chart" is found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/LICENSING/resources/volbrief.asp

It is legal to "downgrade" a WinXP Pro OEM license (but not Home, and not a
retail version of Pro either). The downgrade option goes for Select License and

Open License Agreement as well.

From the "Downgrade Rights Chart" found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/LICENSING/resources/volbrief.asp

<quote>
System licenses acquired via the OEM channel follow rights granted in the OEM
license. PCs licensed for Windows XP Professional OEM are licensed to use
identified previous versions of Windows Operating System Product(s) in lieu of
Windows XP Professional (Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows

NT 4.0 or Microsoft® Windows 98 (Second Edition).
</quote>


Note this from the "Windows OEM EULA Changes" at the same Web page:

<quote>
If you choose this option, neither Microsoft nor the PC Manufacturer is
obligated to supply you with copies of previous versions and neither Microsoft
nor the PC Manufacturer is responsible to provide product support for PCs on
which these previous versions are installed.
</quote>

 

[Lorenzo Jimenez]

Dear Torgeir:

Thanks for the advice and link. I now get the complete picture.

Lorenzo J.

-----Original Message-----
Java.

Hi

If you had purchased a OEM WinXP Pro, you could have downgraded to Win2k or NT
4.0, but with WinXP Home you can't.


A "Downgrade Rights Chart" is found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/LICENSING/resources/volbrief.asp

It is legal to "downgrade" a WinXP Pro OEM license (but not Home, and not a
retail version of Pro either). The downgrade option goes for Select License and

Open License Agreement as well.

From the "Downgrade Rights Chart" found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/LICENSING/resources/volbrief.asp

<quote>
System licenses acquired via the OEM channel follow rights granted in the OEM
license. PCs licensed for Windows XP Professional OEM are licensed to use
identified previous versions of Windows Operating System Product(s) in lieu of
Windows XP Professional (Microsoft Windows 2000

Professional, Microsoft Windows