Re: Re: OS? Home or Pro?

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

At 08:10 19/05/2006, you wrote:
>Even with that being said, you can buy a copy of XP and
>install it on 2 or 3 of your computers at home within a week of 
>purchasing it and you still most
>likely won't raise any red flags at Microsoft when you register your 
>copy.  I haven't actually
>tried that out, I'm just going on what my MS friends tell me on that 
>point.

The online activation will fail if you try this.
You'll have to use phone activation and tell a guy that you're only 
installing it onto one machine.
( my pc died just after installing xp last week, so i know this is so )


andy butler