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I am trying to get legal copy of xP prof. I know MS staff gets it for <$50
 
My brother's friend use to work there some time ago.. I think he got them for 90% off.. making it $20 each.. They come with a big sticker on it stating that it's purchased with an employee discount =P.
 
kran007tx said:
Try this:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=4197922/fd=1/qlty=o

You can get the OEM version for as little as $63 + S&H.

Disclaimer: I haven't verified its authenticity.
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I'd run away as fast as I can from most of those sites. It appears they are simply selling the disk to install the OS, but you don't get any license whatsoever. (Or if you do get a license, it is illegal.) Good luck with that.
OEM was licensed to hardware manufacture (DELL computer). You don¡¦t need to register it under your name.
NO COA. The COA is the certificate to register the software under your name.
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LEGAL being the keyword, I know I can get WXP P much cheaper at eBay also.

thanks all
 
I know this OEM stuff, but I am not sure how legal they are.
 
my friend bought office from there he said he activated it from microsoft and all with no problems :bigok:
 
It looks like a pretty good site....

Hey ford50mus, does your name have aything to do with the ford mustang?
 
Guys. All the software form that site is illegal. I started reading the FAQ. Cmon now. Everthing is packaged in RAR/ZIp files... The file Formats you download or unpack are .ISO These are how warez files are packed up sent to one another over the net and then burned.

I do not see any type of Legal Documentation to any of the original program developers websites Anywhere. No Partnerships Nothing at all.

Some guys got together took a few days to put up a website and write up some how-to-burn FAQ's for NERO and probally in Alcohol 120% also. HAH! they even give NERO free to you because you need that program to burn the images you download from them.

If you buy from them your just helping paying a bunch of kids in France, India China whatever foreign country these guys are located in for something they downloaded for free.

Some of you are totally against the idea of buying illegal programs. OK thats fine.

So now you know the deal with this website. Don't Buy from them. The End.

Others are probally saying hey its cheap right? I just want a fully functioning copy of the software.

To the Guys saying its Cheap:

Don't waste your money. Your better off buying an Unlimited premium usenet account for $15 Bucks a month Or jump on IRC if you don't want to spend a few bucks. Download all the stuff you want and become a little more Internet Savvy at the same time.

All im sayin is that please don't pay some asswipe kid in some foreign country for something he downloaded practically for free. You can do it yourself for a nominal amount of money and Alot of reading/Trial and Error and Newbie forum posts etc to figure it out.

Someone Said something about MS Office:
MS Office or any MS Software (excluding their Operating System software) does not have anywhere near the thorough Product Key Checks that Windows XP does. Not even Close man.
 
when you buy oem it means that you have to buy it together with some sort of hardware which they are doing. now wheather or not that' is actual oem software is another question.
 
druvans said:
I know this OEM stuff, but I am not sure how legal they are.
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what kind of lame ass rule is this on the oem4download terms and conditions section of the website. reeks of being shady
2.3. You cannot register the software with the manufacturer and updates are available not for all the products
 
gouki said:
Guys.
If you buy from them your just helping paying a bunch of kids in France, India China whatever foreign country these guys are located in for something they downloaded for free.
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There is no dearth of crooks and scamsters in our good ol' US of A. they may very well be closer to home than you think.
 
Yeah they could be in the US. I have seen many sites very similar to this for years based in countries like India and China where international copyright laws do not apply. I remember Microsoft busted the guy who created actualtests.com about a year ago. He was based somewhere in the US. Not exactly warez in the traditional illegal program sense. Though exam Q&A guides are regularly traded in warez circles.
 
gouki said:
Yeah they could be in the US. I have seen many sites very similar to this for years based in countries like India and China where international copyright laws do not apply. I remember Microsoft busted the guy who created actualtests.com about a year ago. He was based somewhere in the US. Not exactly warez in the traditional illegal program sense. Though exam Q&A guides are regularly traded in warez circles.
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i looked up on the actualtest.com website, and they claim that all the stuff they sell is the intellectual property of them. and they are based in pakistan and UAE. seemed legit. but then there is always that feeling that something is not entirely right
 
Im sorry actualtests wasn't the site busted a a year ago. It was Testkiller.com / Troytec.com They were based somewhere in the US. Sites like actualtests.com or testking.com or based in places like pakistan and india out of the reach of microsoft's intellectual property right jusridiction. Sorry for about the small mixup.

The most Intresting development was that the guy who owned the sites wasn't even prosecuted! wow just found out now

http://certcities.com/editorial/news/story.asp?EditorialsID=602
 
Brain dump and software download are not the same
 
gouki said:
Not exactly warez in the traditional illegal program sense. Though exam Q&A guides are regularly traded in warez circles.
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I was trying to point out that sites like oem4download.com and testking.com dodge the authorites by operating in foreign countries that have little or no copyright protection laws/enforcement in effect.
 
gouki said:
Guys. All the software form that site is illegal. I started reading the FAQ. Cmon now. Everthing is packaged in RAR/ZIp files... The file Formats you download or unpack are .ISO These are how warez files are packed up sent to one another over the net and then burned.

I do not see any type of Legal Documentation to any of the original program developers websites Anywhere. No Partnerships Nothing at all.

Some guys got together took a few days to put up a website and write up some how-to-burn FAQ's for NERO and probally in Alcohol 120% also. HAH! they even give NERO free to you because you need that program to burn the images you download from them.

If you buy from them your just helping paying a bunch of kids in France, India China whatever foreign country these guys are located in for something they downloaded for free.

Some of you are totally against the idea of buying illegal programs. OK thats fine.

So now you know the deal with this website. Don't Buy from them. The End.

Others are probally saying hey its cheap right? I just want a fully functioning copy of the software.

To the Guys saying its Cheap:

Don't waste your money. Your better off buying an Unlimited premium usenet account for $15 Bucks a month Or jump on IRC if you don't want to spend a few bucks. Download all the stuff you want and become a little more Internet Savvy at the same time.

All im sayin is that please don't pay some asswipe kid in some foreign country for something he downloaded practically for free. You can do it yourself for a nominal amount of money and Alot of reading/Trial and Error and Newbie forum posts etc to figure it out.

Someone Said something about MS Office:
MS Office or any MS Software (excluding their Operating System software) does not have anywhere near the thorough Product Key Checks that Windows XP does. Not even Close man.
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Thanks for pointing this out i will tell my friend to contact Microsoft first thing monday morning.
 
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