XP OEM - qualifying hardware

[listy]

A DVD drive is not really classed as 'essential' hardware I'm afraid.

The list is as follows ;

CPU, Mobo, Memory, hard-drive, and PSU

Please be aware you need to buy ALL of the above to qualify, not any of the above (Wesley)

Best Regards,

i take that you have to buy all the part to be able to buy oem os from scan tbh

[YorkieBen]

according to the website when I tested it you only need one

[Gordy]

~Anyone who already has a copy, do not worry, Microsoft have recently changed the requirements (Again), we will offer both options shortly.

Will there be a price difference between the two?

If so that blows!

MS gouging their customers as usual!

[kalniel]

Actually I had a look into this a bit more. What Scan are currently selling is specifically the System Builders OEM. It's designed for system assemblers to pre-install on a complete system that they then sell to the customer. The license conditions are here:
http://oem.microsoft.com/downloads/P...SB_License.pdf

and the important part is this:

We grant you a nonexclusive right to distribute an individual software license only with a fully assembled computer system. A “fully assembled computer system” means a computer system consisting of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case.

It's also important to note that the System Builder is responsible for end-user support.

In my case this is the correct license - I am a system builder, and I will be distributing this license pre-installed on a fully assembled computer - I also happened to buy the CPU, motherboard, hdd, PSU+Case entirely from Scan

Note that RAM isn't neccessary (though HDDs are equally a type of memory ).

The sticker is also a different design from the non-system builder OEM I've seen in the past - http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/systembuilder/

[GoNz0]

well put, so in all reality, scan should be selling them to us on there own so we can build the systems

thats how i used to sell them a couple of years ago over the counter

[kalniel]

well put, so in all reality, scan should be selling them to us on there own so we can build the systems

I think they would if they could prove that we were putting them on a completely new fully built system. But the only way they can actually do that is by checking to see if we've bought all the components from themselves (maybe if you had recent invoices for all the parts you'd be ok, but I can't imagine that being easy to code in a simple automated web based checkout.)