Tim: >> You should say whether you're wanting to keep that Windows installation >> (which could be a problem in itself, as it's registered to someone else, >> using their details, and you may need to keep supplying those details >> over time), ... Dave Ihnat: > Actually, not. Microsoft doesn't care about the owner of the Windows > license; it's tied to the hardware by registration. The only MS link to the > former owner would be if he/she was stupid enough to create their account > as an online account, and you can get around that by creating a local > account. Not that I have a great deal to do with Microsoft products, their use and abuse thereof, anymore, but I was sure that when my friend fairly recently registered his Windows installation, there were some names, numbers, and/or addresses, involved. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.4-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Oct 6 13:22:51 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
