Fake wimdow OS

NiftyDigits

Collabora wrote: »

who says i was surprised, i knew this would happen once MS did their licence check, so i was prepared and got a licence as soon as it appeared.

Erm...if you were prepared, you would have fixed the issue before it appeared.

Collabora

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Erm...if you were prepared, you would have fixed the issue before it appeared.

i was getting the funds together to pay for a licence

NiftyDigits

Collabora wrote: »

i was getting the funds together to pay for a licence

You should never have stated that you work in IT. Almost always backfires.

gjchester

Collabora wrote: »

if you have a disc for the OEM install then as long as you have the licence key then you can transfer to another PC if the original packs up.
Infact if you read the licence you can install it on more than one machine, but can only have it running on 1 machine at a time

OEM licences die when the motherboard of the systems that are first installed on dies, unless the MoBo is an exact replacement.


As far as I know MS have only ever allowed software to be installed on more than one place on one licence for Office , and that's only where the secondary device is mainly used by the same person who uses the primary desktop.

Collabora

NiftyDigits wrote: »

You should never have stated that you work in IT. Almost always backfires.

i do work in IT running my own business which i have ran since 1999.

Collabora

gjchester wrote: »

As far as I know MS have only ever allowed software to be installed on more than one place on one licence for Office , and that's only where the secondary device is mainly used by the same person who uses the primary desktop.

they do also allow this on windows OS, but even on office if its installed on more than 1 machine then only one of these machine can be using it at any one time, so if you have it installed on 2 machines, you cannot have both machines running at the same time, unless you contact MS and get a second machine added to the licence

System

they do also allow this on windows OS,

I'm afraid they don't. A windows licence, unless a volume licence. can only ever be live on a single machine.

spannerzone

Good to see Microsoft's OEM licencing rules being completely misunderstood as usual

Collabora

!!!!!! wrote: »

I'm afraid they don't. A windows licence, unless a volume licence. can only ever be live on a single machine.

Read what i stated

so if you have it installed on 2 machines, you cannot have both machines running at the same time, unless you contact MS and get a second machine added to the licence

I currently have 3 machines thats use the same Vista licence, all i did was contact MS and at the time i paid £50 each to have the other 2 machines added to the licence. Not sure what the prices would be now, but these machines are in storage, so are not used now

System

Collabora wrote: »

Read what i stated



I currently have 3 machines thats use the same Vista licence, all i did was contact MS and at the time i paid £50 each to have the other 2 machines added to the licence. Not sure what the prices would be now, but these machines are in storage, so are not used now

So you actually have 3 licences.