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From: goldtech on 12 Mar 2010 00:13
Hi,

A year or two ago I bought an OEM copy of XP PRO from a well-know
retailer. Upon looking in the envelope now I see no COA anywhere. I
see something called the COA barcode on the outside of the
envelope..it's an XP Pro SP3 disk. Does anyone have any idea why no
COA was included. Again I got if from where many think is the best
place to buy this sort of thing - it has to be genuine, but I'm not
undetstanding why there's no COA sticker. Any help appreciated.

Lee
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 12 Mar 2010 01:20
What did this well-known retailer tell you when you asked them about this?

goldtech wrote:
> A year or two ago I bought an OEM copy of XP PRO from a well-know
> retailer. Upon looking in the envelope now I see no COA anywhere. I
> see something called the COA barcode on the outside of the
> envelope..it's an XP Pro SP3 disk. Does anyone have any idea why no
> COA was included. Again I got if from where many think is the best
> place to buy this sort of thing - it has to be genuine, but I'm not
> undetstanding why there's no COA sticker. Any help appreciated.
From: David Webb on 12 Mar 2010 06:32
Here's a how to tell article...right from the horse's mouth:

http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/content.aspx?pg=coa&displaylang=en

"goldtech" <goldtech(a)worldpost.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> A year or two ago I bought an OEM copy of XP PRO from a well-know
> retailer. Upon looking in the envelope now I see no COA anywhere. I
> see something called the COA barcode on the outside of the
> envelope..it's an XP Pro SP3 disk. Does anyone have any idea why no
> COA was included. Again I got if from where many think is the best
> place to buy this sort of thing - it has to be genuine, but I'm not
> undetstanding why there's no COA sticker. Any help appreciated.
>
> Lee


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