Backstory.txt

===Backstory Start===    

In my uncle's company, he recently got everything on the computers. By that mean, roughly 2 years ago, 
he decided it was time to get everything from the paper medium to the electronic media. 

That's what he did. He got a good deal for about 26 computers from a agent. 
The job of the agent was to get every computer up and running, with all drivers, licenses and software. 
After a few weeks the computers (all of them) seemed to be running into licensing issues. 
They were getting the licensed expired message, and a watermark at the bottom right corner of the screen.
After the agent was informed about this issue, they worked overnight at the office to correct this issue, 
by simply formatting the computers with a new windows installation. i.e. Windows 8.1 
(I remember seeing this on most the computers, around June 2017)
Now the issue had still popped over the course of few more months, 
while the agent repeatedly tells my uncle to ignore the warnings. 
Sure, ignoring works, and most of the work is unaffected by any issue whatsoever. 
Now there was a problem in mid-September last year and they were forced to reinstall windows, 
on most of the machines and they installed windows 7. After that, they have upgraded their 
windows installations to windows 10 with the free upgrade from Microsoft.
Now according to my dad, who works there with my uncle, most of the machines are windows 10, 
and are still getting the License Expired message.  
  
===Backstory End===        

I strongly think, that the reason my uncle got a good deal in the beginning of the story, 
is because the agent got machines with DOS pre-installed and then installed pirated copies 
of windows on all machines. But this might not be the case.

At this point of time no-one remembers what operating-system the computers came pre-installed with. 
By that I mean, all the users of computers in the company were born in 70's, 
which means they came into contact with computers, around 2 years ago, 
when my uncle bought computers for the first time. 
They all are largely in-adept at explaining to me, what version of windows,
was installed on the machines 2 years ago, when it first was received from the agent.

As for the agent, the ties have been cut and is not even receiving our calls. That sly bastard.

Now, here's my theory. What if the machines do have OEM licenses for a certain X version of windows, 
which no one knows about. I see they have windows 10 installed, and I might not be able to take 
any machines down for checking for a full day, but maybe for few minutes to check if there was any 
OEM license on any machine, Since the license is written in BIOS, is there any chance for me to 
find out if there are any OEM licenses and for which version of windows ?

I also want to let you know, that I have never been a part of the installation in any step. My dad asked me to look into
this matter, without the knowledge of any of this (this being today, what dad told me) to my uncle (He doesn't know, I am looking
into it, yet).

Also finally, since you are confused about the timeline, yes, he bought computers in 2016, to scale most of the paper operations
to electronic media. There were computers originally in the company, but only 3 of them, which were used only for accounting, by a 
select few individuals, that were hired exclusively with specialized skills, like Tally for, eg. All other work was done on phone, 
and on paper. 

Its India, if you are still wondering...