pro vs corporate

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Read the Sticky about Windows licensing.

What is XP Corporate?

‘XP Corporate’ is the name commonly used to describe a set of media usually bought by large organisations on a Volume Licensing Agreement with Microsoft. This set of media is unlicensed unless you are covered by your companies licence and should only be distributed by your companies IT department. This version of XP does not require activation and is therefore distributed illegally online with an associated VLK (Volume License Key). Any organisation that has a Volume Licence Agreement with Microsoft has a duty to keep the VLK confidential under the terms of license. If an organisation leaks it’s VLK into the internet through negligence they are breaking their license and therefore all clients using that Windows under the Volume Licence have their license revoked. Therefore this media is seldom distributed to employees without the VLK integration into the setup package (therefore keeping it secret). VLKs that are distributed and caught by Microsoft are blacklisted and any client using an unlicensed OS will be offered to buy under the Genuine Advantage Program.

'Corporate' IS XP Pro, just without activation.

Burnsy
 
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