OEM Software
OEM Software
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- sparker0
most of those sites are a) illegal copies, b) educational sold as full or c) they send you a 'burned' copy of a disc they have.
oem means it comes with hardware...you can't very well buy/sell oem if you don't buy/sell hardware.
like an oem copy of windows xp is purchased at a slightly reduced price when you buy a new harddrive.
so, instead of $299 for xp and $80 for the drive, you spend $80 on the drive and get xp for ~$249.
that is oem distribution.
with all of ms's latest anti-piracy adaptations to xp, it is likely any copy you buy from a site like that will not install or update.