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Selling refurbished computers and re-installing windows XP oem and change of ownership

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The company I am work for are going to start to refurbish old computers and then re-sell them the computers are from ex corpaorate pc that have been donated to us that have an XP OEM COA key attached to them, what we would be doing is wiping the Hard Drives and then re-installing windows xp using the attached COA oem key on the computer and activating them. We would not be supplying any media with the pc but the ownership of the computer and the COA would change under microsoft licensing is this allowed.

Saturday, April 2, 2011 2:59 AM

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Hello Dragsterp,

Your plan as stated runs afoul of Microsoft copyrights and licensing terms.

To refurbish PCs while playing by the rules, become a Registered Microsoft Refurbisher: http://www.microsoft.com/refurbishedpcs/Programs/RegisteredRefurb.htm
- Marked as answer by Dragsterp Sunday, April 3, 2011 2:55 AM
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Hello Dragsterp,

Your plan as stated runs afoul of Microsoft copyrights and licensing terms.

To refurbish PCs while playing by the rules, become a Registered Microsoft Refurbisher: http://www.microsoft.com/refurbishedpcs/Programs/RegisteredRefurb.htm
- Marked as answer by Dragsterp Sunday, April 3, 2011 2:55 AM
Saturday, April 2, 2011 4:19 AM
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Thanks , dan I read the requirements where it stated it requires that you have original recovery media.

Sunday, April 3, 2011 2:57 AM