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XP and Vista

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Summers618

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Ok, i have a legitimate question here. I just set up my rig, and don't have any copies of windows... Last comp was a dell with oem that wont reinstall... So really my new rig is sitting here with no OS.... Should i...
1 buy a regular XP now and just wait like a year or two to get vista and see how it does
2 Buy one of the XP things from newegg and upgrade to vista? I think that gives you an OEM of vista which will only activate once which will be bad if i upgrade though
3 Just wait till the release of vista and buy retail...
Don't give me any of this dont give MS your money crap or whatever... I just want to know will vista become mainstream like XP or a flop like ME. And is there any reason whatsoever to get XP over vista?
 
It's a win/win situation.

Just buy XP MCE now, get the Vista Home Premium upgrade for free, and use either one.

If you're afraid of upgrading, just install XP.

If you're worried about the OEM license, install vista on your next build.

Why buy retail when you can get two OEM copies for less?
 
But with OEM copies aren't i limited to 1 activation? like if i reformat, or get new hardware then im screwed aren't i?
 
If you reformat, just phone in. As long as you don't replace your motherboard or change your main system drive out WPA won't kick in.
 
Get XP with the Vista upgrade option. Even if it is OEM it will activate more than once. I have never had a problem with an OEM copy not activating even on hardware that wasn't it wasn't orginally activated on.

In fact my last copy of XP Home came on a eMachines. It activated with three different motherboards and four CPU's (two Intel, two AMD's). I only had to phone in the activation on the last hardware change.
 
OEM version of XP is excellent, can be said even better than retail since it's not as sensitive to hardware changes. From what I understand is the vista is harder to swap out stuff like mobo and such because the whole activation is online, can't do it by phone unless you need to reactivate. From what I understand is XP download servers are lazy and collect your info but doesn't match specs of last machine install majority of the time, this time around form what I understand is that id does register your pc specs and will try to match, if it doesn't match it wont validate. A friend told me vista tech support are going to validate hardware before giving an revalidation code.
 
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