New Microsoft Program Allows Windows on Resold PCs

by admin November 10, 2007 at 9:44 pm

Microsoft has launched a program to help ensure sellers of refurbished PCs will run legal copies of Windows.

Microsoft launched a program to help ensure that PC refurbishers and OEMs reselling used PCs to businesses are installing legitimate copies of Windows on them.

The Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) program lets OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) that take old computers and rehab them for resale license Windows for those PCs in bulk. The program, launched Friday, is an extension of Community MAR, which was aimed at charities, educational institutions and nonprofits.

Full story: pcworld.com