Interestingly, I talked with a Microsoft representative about just this
issue the other afternoon.  My dilema is taking a used system in trade that
has an operating system installed, but no installation disks included with
the system.  If I legally want to sell that system, it seems to me that I
have to either format the HDD, or purchase and install an operating system.
My question to them was, can I legitimately install the OEM version of Win95
on a system that is not new, or even a complete upgrade?  The MS tech told
me that the requirements to sell the OEM version is either a new hard drive
(for which a fully formated used hard drive counted) or a new Motherboard.

However, I did not think to ask if it was still legitimate if I did not do
the installation of the software....In the event that MS does not care who
installs the software (what about rebuilding your own system after a crash),
it seems that you could purchase that version of OSR2 along with the new
HDD.

Mike Buraczewski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive and Win95SR2


|As far as I know, OSR2 is only available on new systems and not on just
|hard drives.. I've seen people selling the OSR2, but doubt the legality of
|it..
|
|Dave Jones
|http://www.cyberramp.net/~dave-tsp
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: ferdy <[log in to unmask]>
|To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
|Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 1:55 PM
|Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive and Win95SR2
|
|>I'm trying to find out how to go about buying Win95SR2 with a new HD. Is
|>that something that the vendor offers? One place I tried only sold it with
|a
|>complete new system. I'm building my own. Does it matter what HD? Looking
|to
|>get SCSIUW