Windows XP Licensing 1-2 CPU

[Gareth]

if it states 1-2 CPU, that's 1 computer with 1 or 2 CPUs isn't it, not a license to cover 2 computers.

 

[TheCake]

lol. 1 computer with 1-2 CPUs.

 

[Gareth]

cheers, just needed confirmation for some idiot.

 

[TheCake]

No probs

 

[McBunny]

it starts getting complicated with dual cpu dual core pc's tho

 

[KDF]

it starts getting complicated with dual cpu dual core pc's tho

Not really dual cores are still single cpu's and show as such.

 

[McBunny]

ah microsoft are starting to charge per core now too

have you heard about the 5 performance levels of vista yet ?

 

[wozzaa]

Not really dual cores are still single cpu's and show as such.

Windows detects it as 2 seperate cpu's actually. will show 2 seperate graphs in task manager for the CPU's and then give an average of them both for the 0 - 100% usage.

when setting affinity to different cores it shows up as multiple cpu's.

And vista is gonna be s**t. unable to play certain games unless you guy it or run certain software. then they have the DRM crap in it its sounding really bad already.

 

[dk]

Microsoft Licenses are currently purchased by the socket, no matter how many cores you have, so a Dual Core Processor SQL server can be licensed with 1 SQL Processor license.

Oracle charges 1.5x for a dual core processor license compared to a single core.