More Microsoft Licensing fun!

[Sidoh]

I can run my computer without a harddrive.

Use your brain.

[iago]

The point isn't that a harddrive is critical to being a computer, it's that a harddrive is critical to the OS.  If the harddrive is replaced, the OS has to be replaced.  Otherwise, the OS shouldn't have to be. 

That's the issue.  Not whether or not you can get by without a harddrive in hypothetical situations. 

[Sidoh]

The point isn't that a harddrive is critical to being a computer, it's that a harddrive is critical to the OS.  If the harddrive is replaced, the OS has to be replaced.  Otherwise, the OS shouldn't have to be. 

That's the issue.  Not whether or not you can get by without a harddrive in hypothetical situations. 

Exactly.  Thank you.

[Ergot]

I'd change that to, "A hard drive is critical to the Windows OS" or "A storage medium is critical to an OS".

[Chavo]

I'd change that to, "A hard drive is critical to the Windows OS" or "A storage medium is critical to an OS".

Windows can install to a flash drive just as easily as linux can....

[Warrior]

shh, let them think that. They need something to hold on to.

[iago]

Ok, that doesn't matter! 

[d&q]

It wouldn't really change anything. If all computers were generally shipped with a flash drive as the main storage medium for the OS, that means if the flash drive was removed, the OS would be removed, essentially requiring a new key for the same computer. I think it's just that in this particular case, its hard drives.

Am I understanding this incorrectly