PDA

Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : XP Professional Retail or OEM?

Jediab
September 1st, 2002, 11:34 PM
Besides Microsoft's No Support For Joo! and very little if any documentation with OEM copies, are there any differences with the OEM and retail versions? I want to purchase XP and just want to make sure I dont do a boo-boo.

Thanks!
Radical Dreamer
September 2nd, 2002, 12:00 AM
Only dif is OEM you must purchase hardware along with it (even if its a simm etc)

As for the OS....no difference
silencio
September 2nd, 2002, 12:00 AM
I've noticed no difference at all between the two. I've run retail (which came with my MSDN) and I've run the OEM version on my gfs machine. I can't see any difference between the two.
NooNoo
September 2nd, 2002, 05:46 AM
I thought retail earned you the right to bug m$ about stuff?
Radical Dreamer
September 2nd, 2002, 11:53 AM
Originally posted by NooNoo
I thought retail earned you the right to bug m$ about stuff?

Thats what he said Besides Microsoft's No Support For Joo! :D
NooNoo
September 2nd, 2002, 12:09 PM
He did? Well I'll be....
Radical Dreamer
September 2nd, 2002, 01:10 PM
Originally posted by NooNoo
He did? Well I'll be....

Actually, I made it all up :D ;)
Jediab
September 2nd, 2002, 02:12 PM
Thanks all! I dont need the retail so am going to look at OEM for me!