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We have older electronic equipment that will talk to Win 98, but nothing newer. If I have a valid Windows 98 License, can I copy it to more than one PC now that Microsoft no longer supports it - or do I still need to purchase additional license.
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We are an electrical cooperative and have older microwave and relay equipment that they tell me won't work (test and analysis) on anything above 98. They have dual OS on some laptops for this reason. We would like to have at least one addtional dual OS - wasn't sure if we could leagally use the same 98 CD or needed to buy an addtional copy off ebay.
Legally you would have to buy another license.
& again if you want to keep within the rules you should make sure you don't end up buying an OEM licence (the one that is tied to the supplied PC) Nor just the CD if you're buying from eBay etc.
Most of the Disks for sale are left over from when someone trashed their old PC and found the disks that came with it in the garage. Not illegal to sell but as posted not legal to install :(
Most of the Disks for sale are left over from when someone trashed their old PC and found the disks that came with it in the garage. Not illegal to sell but as posted not legal to install :(
I you remove the installation on the old computer and use the license on the new computer you still only need 1 license. Maybe you can buy old license from somebody?
If you were able to use only 1 license in the past,then you should be able to use it now on 1 computer right? Or is this older electronic equipement a recent acquisition?
Does it use serial or parallel communication? Why is it not working on newer OS?
To install W98 on newer hardware you need to disable hardware detection else it will hang during install
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186111 (I can remember the exact install parameter)