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1. Comment - MS to Offer Free, Discounted Vista

   (Oct 8, 2006 - 8:33 PM)

   As a home builder do you install a retail full version @ retail price or an oem copy? Both are usually the same and its rough, cause thats a home builders profit, hence the discounted price of a OEM copy, (Less than 100$ in plastic wrap compared to alot more for retail)? As a home builder for personal use you should be using a retail copy, OEM is not to be sold without "hardware" thats the clincher, ebay and other places sell alone or with maybe a keyboard... so users are kind of fooled into thinking its a full version... I don't know how many customers I delt with that has puchased a copy on its own, or with a keyboard, becauase someone put there reimage disk on ebay to make a profit, only to tell them we can't support it for free or send out a replacement for free if it doesn't work.... Its the same with the tech guarentee I imagine.. but as a home builder you would be safe because you are building for youself and consiquently buying a full retail copy. If you are selling computers, you can purchase a license at a discounted price for OEM copys that you can build and modify for your customers to fit their PC's perfectly...

2. Comment - MS to Offer Free, Discounted Vista

   (Oct 8, 2006 - 2:06 PM)

   I used to work for MS replacement parts, its called a technology guarentee, and MS has always said if you buy a product and the newer version is released within 6 months, they will upgrade you at no cost. The clincher with this is that it usually has to be a retail bought copy, NOT OEM. All computers bought usually have OEM copys installed, which Microsoft will not support as a rule. They will honour a retail full version, but I doubt that they will upgrade OEM versions, they just don't deal with them, the support is always refered to the manafacturer aka "dell"...
   
   The deal is MS sells OEM copy licenses at a reduced cost to manafacturers, most are full of necessary drivers ect, for example, media centre or just a regular computer. Its a OEM copy made for a specific computer purchased, therefore not a microsoft product anymore persay. I think the "partners" would have to carry on the cost of buying and supporting additional licenses that would work with each setup of each computer.....This is Microsofts guarentee for Microsofts products, a common misconception out there is that OEM copys are MS products, they are not. You can tell if you have an OEM copy or a legit retail copy by right clicking on my computer, going to properties..if the second set of numbers in the "registered to" number says OEM, its not a valid retail copy therefore, in Microsofts eyes, all suport goes back to the vendor. EX Dell. I wonder if these third party vendors are going to also honour this guarentee??? I think it would be very costly...its up to them not Microsoft....