[TriLUG] buy windows - ugh!

[Tim Jowers via TriLUG]

>From what I remember there is some feature cripple in the OEM version.
Maybe you need Pro to install SQL Server or something like that. Just FYI.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>
> I think if I were to buy from them, I'd use a disposable prepaid debit card
>>> with a low balance!
>>>
>>>        I miss when credit card companies had an option to create one
>> time numbers for online purchases.
>>
>> Citibank still offers virtual credit card numbers, but it's gotten harder
> and harder to use them. We haven't been able to run the native app on my
> wife's laptop for years and the online version depends on flash that is of
> course a real problem these days. But when they work virtual (single use)
> credit cards are very nice for peace of mind with online transactions. I
> just double checked my shiny new Citi mobile app and there is no support
> for virtual card numbers in that. This would seem to make it clear they
> don't really want to offer this any more either.
>
> -Pete
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