>hi kevin!
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>AFAIK the license-key is written onto the recovery-cd which must (i believe so) be attached to a new pc or is written on a label at the back of the pc.
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>the case you mentioned sounds very strange - it's the first time i hear/read such a thing. i don't think that's absolutely legal.

Yeah, that's what I thought, there was no CD or Licence, just a incomplete installation of 98.

The company tells me MS allows them to do that, I would like to query it with MS, but I don't know how to.

Kev