From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>                  ...                            Maybe they want to
>make sure big companies with in house techs don't do hardware upgrades
>without buying new licenses of the next version of windows that they likely
>didn't need or want.

Big companies normally have site licenses. This allows them to do their own
custom install images with their desired configuration and applications.
This version also doesn't have the license key or reactivation
requirement(*). There is one catch, in that each system on which this site
license is used must also have a valid individual Windows license, either
retail or preinstalled.

(*) Windows 2000. I believe XP is the same but I'm open to correction.

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