Dudes, what are the OEM rules with Microsoft

When I used to sell, I thought it was a piece of vital computer hardware, can anyone confirm / deny - with links if possible ?

Thanks

What exactly do you mean? As in, what's required to be able to buy/sell an OEM version of Microsoft software? Last time I had any experience with it, I think it had to be 5 major pieces of hardware at once. I could have been lied to though.

Buy ya

5?!!? I thought you could just like buy a HDD. Or is that only from El Dodgo retailers?

Yeah thats what I thought T, little piece of hardware, come on where's the knowledge @

you can make a system with less than 5 vital parts, so im gonna assume thats wrong

have also always been told you can buy oem with any 1 part (usually hdd)

ask the shop you're buying from, I've found they give slightly different answers.

I dont want the f***ing shop answer

If you go through Umart Online, you will need to buy hardware, and the cheapest option is to get a DVD burner. $39 or something

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=885079
Arck mein eyes the googles do nothing.

Edit For the lazy:

Q. The current System Builder license states that I may distribute an operating system license with a "non-peripheral hardware component". What hardware components are considered "non-peripheral"?

A. A non-peripheral hardware component is a hardware component that is considered to be essential to running a computer system, and includes components such as memory, internal devices and drives, mice, keyboards, and power supplies. Examples of components that are not considered essential are external modems, networking devices, cameras, printers, and scanners. "

last edited by Fizzer at 15:42:00 15/May/07

They changed it about 18 months ago, and while from what I understand from the most part it isn't really different, they changed it in such a way to confuse the hell out of everyone. Even the MS legal rep at one of the big conferences I went to couldn't answer the question which half a dozen system builders wanted to know of.

I think the basic gist of it now is that the person who opens the package must agree that they're going to actually build the system (hah!). They were basically trying to change the agreement from being tied to a hardware purchase to a system purchase with an agreement from the builder or something similar. Buggered if I could explain it in any detail though.

I dont want the f***ing shop answer

Then f***ing ask the OEM vendor

Aint that easy

how come you don't want the shop answer? I assumed you'd want to purchase as little as you possibly had to, and if you call the shop you wanna buy from, you can find out just how little they're prepared to make you buy in order to get the OEM version

it sounds like he's checking his facts to start some s***


that said.. Fizzer answered the question

for a while they changed it to anything computer related i.e mouse even a power cable etc and then they changed it back to pc hardware, RAM, CDROM's, HDD's etc

i bought a case fan, coz thats what they told me :)

you only need 1 piece of hardware

Aint that easy

Well you need to supply some reasons about why its not as easy as calling Microsoft and asking them before anyone else is going to help you

Because I have spoken to three different people at Microsoft, who have spoken to their seniors, who have spoken to their seniors, and they don't know.

This is an email I was sent at work regarding OEM rules. I trust that it is correct.

1) OEM Operating System Software (i.e. Vista)

In the past clients would be able to get away with simply buying a keyboard and/or mouse and that would be enough to legally qualify them to purchase a copy of OEM Windows XP for example.



Under the new rules OEM Operating System Software (i.e. Vista) can only be sold if we are building a complete new PC for them or they are a registered Microsoft system builder (i.e. a reseller or similar company to ours that sells PC’s)


2) OEM System Software (i.e. Office)

In the past you could only sell a copy of MS Office OEM if the client was purchasing a brand new computer or had just bought a new computer but forgot to purchase Office at the same time.


The new rule is similar to the old one however there is a small change; any OEM System Software (i.e. Office) can only be sold with a brand new computer however we must install the software on the machine, once done we can hand it over to the client along with the licence key only, any media must be retained by us. This is to avoid the common “buy one install on many” scenario which we are all too familiar with.

This is to avoid the common “buy one install on many” scenario which we are all too familiar with.

It also avoids the "install once, reinstall if you format" scenario we are also all too familiar with.

^^ Thats a pretty retarted rule.......

^^^ is...

pretty retarted

mmmm retarts... I quite enjoy the blueberry flavour

man so much bs in this thread

afaik it's always been a motherboard or hard disk for one oem licence.