COA/product ?

Petesmad <pete@here.com>, the scabby-cadger and unhygienic oofterpa who
likes hedonistic vein-laden meatpipe bashing with mountain beavers, and
whose partner is a ****-peddler with an enormous orchid boat, wrote in
<yNSdnbPYY6r6DtzbRVnyjgA@bt.com>:
> Are these the same thing ?
>
> or to seperate things.
>
> Apologies for daft question. I'm on the mission of buying a windows xp
> from ebay and some adverts say they have both or just one.
>
> cheers
>
>


The Certificate Of Authentication is generally the sticker with the license
key on it, without one you wont own the single license for the product.
A product key is the mess of numbers and letters printed on the COA; that's
what you'll need during installation.


--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

"Gazwad" <argos.staffed.by.****s@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:729zaw$73i$m@walloping-great-rib-cushions.org...
> Petesmad <pete@here.com>, the scabby-cadger and unhygienic oofterpa who
> likes hedonistic vein-laden meatpipe bashing with mountain beavers, and
> whose partner is a ****-peddler with an enormous orchid boat, wrote in
> <yNSdnbPYY6r6DtzbRVnyjgA@bt.com>:
>> Are these the same thing ?
>>
>> or to seperate things.
>>
>> Apologies for daft question. I'm on the mission of buying a windows xp
>> from ebay and some adverts say they have both or just one.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>
>
> The Certificate Of Authentication is generally the sticker with the
> license
> key on it, without one you wont own the single license for the product.
> A product key is the mess of numbers and letters printed on the COA;
> that's
> what you'll need during installation.
>
>
> --
> For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
> in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
> it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
> are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
> impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
> how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
> bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
> of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
> dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
> is but a dream within a dream.
>

Ahhh thanks for that Gazwad