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Product Licensing Search

Product Licensing Web is now Product Licensing Search, providing quick access to licensing terms, conditions and supplemental information relevant to the use of products licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

Windows XP Professional
On this page, you can find information for a particular product or product family. This information is taken directly from the Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights and the Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing documents.

Please scroll down the page to view the information provided by each link.

Product Use Rights

This product no longer shows up in the current PUR. Please check an earlier version of the PUR here.

Product List
The Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing provides information monthly about Microsoft software and Online Services licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

Please remember: The terms and conditions of your volume license agreement, and the product use rights documented in that agreement, govern your use of products licensed from Microsoft. While we have endeavored to facilitate your access to and understanding of the product use rights through this online tool, your use of this site should not serve as a substitute for reading and understanding your volume license agreement. We will work to keep the contents of this site consistent with the governing volume license documentation, but in the case of conflicting content, you should refer to the terms and conditions of your agreement.

If you acquire licenses under the GSA our GIA programs, please contact your reseller or Microsoft licensing executive for the applicable license agreement/product use rights.

Note, because of the way that the Product Use Rights are designed, some provisions may appear that relate to other products, as noted in these pages.

Volume Licensing Resources
An important thing to understand about all Volume License agreements – including Academic, Government and Public Sector -- is that they never cover the initial full Windows Client operating system license. Volume License agreements only cover Windows Client upgrade licenses. Windows upgrades are designed to upgrade previously acquired qualifying desktop operating system licenses. See the Product Use Rights (PUR) for more information on qualifying underlying licenses.