RE: Tier pricing (was chgsysval QMODEL)

[Dan <dbcemid@xxxxxxxxx>]

First off: Agreed, $10,000 "admin fee" is ridiculous.  I would threaten
to write letters to the editors of every relevant print & online
magazine & newsletter.

I don't know how it works now, or how the EULA reads, but there was a
time that you couldn't even buy a pre-built PC without Windows being
installed on it, even if you intended to have a non-Windows OS
installed on it.

Reading your question again, in today's world, yes I believe you would
have to "re-pay" Micro$oft to install Windows on a new PC, even if you
were using it to replace an older system.  Perhaps if you removed the
Windows OS from the old system and used the same version to install on
the new, you might be "legal".

- Dan

--- Angela Wawrzaszek <awawrzaszek@nucorauburn.com> wrote:
> We are user based.... and it is VERY unethical that this is what they
> are doing.   When you get a new PC do you have to re-pay microsoft to
> put windows on it???  And again as mentioned before,  it takes them
> what 5 minutes to issue a key?  So how much "administrative fee"
> should be charged for this.  We have many other packages on our
> system and only one other company is trying to nail us with a HUGE
> fee for a key. Afee is fine but lets not get carried away...

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