gebe opened this issue on Dec 06, 2003 ยท 27 posts
agiel posted Sat, 06 December 2003 at 12:18 PM
"dies" means that your right to use that software dies with the hardware it came with. I also installed windows 98 / ME that came with older machines on newer PCs, but it was not officially legal to do so.... of course, nothing prevents you from doing so except maybe the lack of support. This is why Microsoft and now other companies rely more and more on product activation. that way they can track your usage of OEM software version retail if they want to, in addition of monitoring pirate copies.