Issues Obtaining Windows XP Discs SP2 Or Above

[photray94]

Hello SoR members,

I primarily use Mac OS X Leopard - at the moment 10.5.3 - as my operating system.  I've an iMac and a MacBook Pro; this can make for some problems programming MCUs.  There is a solution, to dual boot XP using Boot Camp - I could also run Vista, but I prefer XP.  After a quick google search for Windows XP discs I find nothing; does anyone know stores that still carry the discs for it?

[izua]

nope. they're not prodcued anymore, most of the stuff related to xp is discontinued. hooray for microsoft (hooray = to stab smb in the eye)
Legally speaking, you can get vista with a downgrade option.
Less legally speaking, there's the bittorrent o/s

[TrickyNekro]

Man...

I think getting an original os is one thing...
But it's the only original thing in my pc!!!



If must.... download...

[AndrewM]

XP is still carried by a bunch of the larger tech stores.  NewEgg has it, both home and pro, as does BestBuy.

[airman00]

If you have SP1 you could upgrade

also the thing with the torrents

its not illegal to download the windows CD , however it is illegal to crack the installer. If you still have a valid key ( or you could buy one still) then its all perfectly legal. Remember that the store is selling license keys, they don;t really care about the installer.

[paulstreats]

You can usually buy the cd's and license keys on ebay

[Roberto]

Target has the disk for $99.99.

[pomprocker]

use parallels, or fusion by vmware to run windows

and just download the TinyXP torrent. Its a stripped down version of XP (no bloatware) that is meant to run on older machines, or car pcs