Or show me where I can purchase a legit copy of Windows for not much money? I recently found out that my big money-saving scheme (install windows on my new computer, uninstall it on old computer, then sell old computer, thus not violating EULA) won’t work. Apparently, after calling Microsoft, reciting them a 42-digit long number, receiving a 42-digit long number, trying the number, verifying the number, and then writing down the number, restarting computer, and trying it again, I still can’t activate Windows. MS told me to call Dell (from whom I bought the old computer), Dell told me I’m screwed (unless I’d like to buy another copy of windows from them).
I’m eligible for either a student or government discount, if it helps, though.
(The title of the thread was implying that you should uninstall and pack up your personal copy of Windows and send it to me. I’m not holding my breath.)
It would help if you told us where you where. However, if you simply send me $40 dollars cash, I can walk right into UMB Library , downtown baltimore, and get just about any recent MS-operating system for $40, and pretty much the same for other MS products. No violation here. I am a student, you are a student.
Trunk lives around here. He can probably do the same thing.
OOoooops. I live in Arkadelphia, AR. I didn’t know that college bookstores sold software at huge-ass discounts like that. I’ll have to go hit ours up and see what happens.
Be carefull. Last time I looked, John’s Hopkins Homewood sold it for the same “discount” that you can get online, which isn’t much, while UMB sold it for just what I just said. It used to be 20, but that was two years ago.
If you know any CompSci professors or department members, it might be worth talking to them. At the two public universities I’ve been to, there’s been someone in the staff who was a member of the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance - students are able to get TONS of software for next to nothing(XP went for a little over $11), provided they had a reason to use the software. Just about anyone could get permission for the operating system.
Aquafina: on this board, don’t offer to help circumvent copyrights–with or without the help of a program. The SDMB is owned by the Chicago Reader (a copyrighted alternative weekly); because of that, we frown on any attempt to bypass copyright protections. (Not to mention it’s illegal and you shouldn’t be doing it anyway.)
While chaoticdonkey is asking for legitimate software (and made it quite clear that he’s not interested in copyright circumvention), this thread’s closed. The SDMB cannot verify which software being offered through our board (from member to member) is legit, so we err on the side of caution and disallow these types of threads.