Author: John Merlino
Date: 20:23:09 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 18:53:02, Slater Wold wrote: >On October 27, 2001 at 15:44:43, John Merlino wrote: > >Just to let you know, I run Chessmaster 8k on Windows 2000 Server, and the only >problem I have is the boxes not redrawing properly. :) What boxes? >>And, of course, all of these could be directly traced to Windows 2000/NT. This >>was making me dread how well CM8000 would work on XP. >> >>Thankfully, by all accounts (which, admittedly, is still less than a dozen), >>there are no problems. >> >>However, I STILL hate the fact that you can't install it on more than one >>machine. And if you want to have ANY "fully-compliant" XP program on more than >>one computer you have to buy two copies of it. At least, that's what I've heard, >>but the only programs that I've actually been told enforce this requirement are >>Microsoft programs (such as Office XP). > >This could *not* be further from the truth. > >They will let you install it on any computer that belongs to you, that you use >*personally*. It can NOT be owned by your company, or furnished by your >company. I myself have 3 computers, in which I registered Office XP for all 3 >of them. I did not have to register my copy of Windows XP. > >Of course, you'll have a hard time explaining to MS why you have 20 comptuers. >But home LAN's are pretty common now. I have no personal experience with XP. However, my boss (who is exceptionally computer savvy, and would know as much about these things as anybody) told me that Office XP would NOT (i.e. refused to) install on a second machine, apparently because it was already installed on a different machine. jm
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