This can be true for the same company, same manufacturer. They sometimes obide and do as they are told, and sometimes they refuse. (If you custom built your own, then call yourself for tech support.) Contact their technical support and ask them to send you a disc with appropriate Windows version. Your OEM is usually your computer manufactorer. If you have the OEM license, and neighter legal nor the semi-legal options are available to you, then you should contact your OEM. The typo in the first name is on them (Microsoft). You will need one of the following MSDN files. You can read all about it on the web, even on the official MSDN website. If you decide to go this way, make sure you verify that your download is authentic. If you have a license for your Microsoft software, I see no reason for Microsoft to sue you. I won't mention any of them here, for obvious reasons. You might be able to download the MSDN image for Windows through other, unofficial sources. So if you are a student at a university in Sweden, check with your faculty, you might already have access to MSDN images without knowing it. Members of MSDN Academic Alliance (now called DreamSpark and DreamSpark Premium) also have limited access (not all editions) to MSDN images for Windows. But these are only available to people who have access to the TechNet Subscriber Downloads or MSDN Subscriber Downloads. If you have a pre-activated OEM license you can use should be able to use an MSDN Windows image. Business and enterprise users, and Windows developers have other arrangements. These links seem to be valid indefinitely (so much so that they have began to spread throughout various blogs). You should have an email witha a special download-link (unless you have deleted it already from inbox). But you must have purchased it there to be able to download there. Retail Windows (digital download): Microsoft Store affiliate DigitalĪs far as consumers go, Digital River and Microsoft Store is the only place you can legally download your purchesed copy of Windows.In either case, Linux is your best bet for productivity and entertainment among alternate OSes.The answer to this question will depend on the type of license you have. It incorporates newer changes and faster releases than the more conservative business version. DEB package format, since Ubuntu’s popularity, ensures that most developers make their apps available in this format.īut depending on who you ask (especially if that person works in corporate IT), Red Hat’s Linux distribution still reigns supreme CentOS is a leader for server deployments, while Fedora is the community version of the enterprise OS. We can say the following are advantages of most distributions that use the. But Ubuntu itself also derives from Debian. Ubuntu is arguably the most popular Linux distribution for “average” users, particularly when you take into account all its derivatives. Troubleshooting sometimes requires digging deep into the OS. Methods such as WINE to install and run Windows programs are dicey. Common proprietary applications aren’t available natively.
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