Poll: Do you have legal copies of Windows?

[Dynix]

My own PC runs a legal copy of Vista 64bit Ultimate (I own legal copies of both 32bit and 64bit Ultimate). Laptop runs a legal copy of Vista 64bit Home Premium (again, I own legal copies of both 32bit and 64bit of that OS). Another PC runs on XP Pro Corporate which isn't legal.

 

[Hamster]

I did have an doggy copy of Vista to see what it was like.

XP Legit. Tried out vista (not legit) with a view to buying it but ditched it after a couple of weeks due to lack of drivers.

 

[Hobgoblin]

OAM's of both 32 and 64bit vista, as well as OAM of XP home in my house. only have 64bit vista installed now.

oh and my mothers pc, which came with that media version of XP.

 

[AtomicBanana]

Never even seen a real xp disc.

 

[Biohazard]

Never even seen a real xp disc.

they are pretty!

 

[Tripnologist]

if i bought the retail version of vista, and then installed it on all 3 of my machines, are they all legit or is only 1 of them legit and the other 2 dodgy? even though they are all my pc's and in the same house, etc.

Legit would be one license per machine.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Never even seen a real xp disc.

Couldn't find the shiney OEM disc, but here's my Volume Licensing Media:

Burnsy

 

[Burnsy2023]

if i bought the retail version of vista, and then installed it on all 3 of my machines, are they all legit or is only 1 of them legit and the other 2 dodgy? even though they are all my pc's and in the same house, etc.

Technically, none of them are legit until you delete it off all but one machine.

Burnsy

 

[Vicar]

3 XP 32Bit Legit Keys
1 XP 64Bit Legit Key
1 Vista 32 Legit Key
1 Vista 64 Very unlegit Key

The reason for the latter, is wholey down to Vista 32 not liking a core component driver for an addon card in my machine for SATA drives, this drove me nutz so I was bad and tried Vista 64 to see if it would resolve the issue which it did. Yes I am a bad person, but I have paid so may Licenses I wanted to know for sure before handing out for another. Which by the way I intend to in the next few months anyway, there I said it and hang my head in shame.... flame away.....

 

[AtomicBanana]

they are pretty!

Just had a look, ooo you're right, they *are* pretty! Not pretty enough to warrant a purchase though

 

[yaboy]

Legal.

 

[greeny_fastcar]

I have three machines in my house. Two desktops both with XP licenses and a notebook with an XP license. But I have managed to loose one of my stickers with my license on so I guess I'm a license down and I just have a CD.

 

[memyselfandi]

Currently have three boxes, (one laptop and two desktops), running Vista Home Premium, (Ultimate didn't have any extra features I wanted), one of these is retail and the others are OEM. There's also another laptop and desktop running XP Pro, (one retail and one OEM) and I think I have a spare XP retail license as well where I've cut down on machines.

There's a few other machines but they are running non-Windows OSes (and are licensed too).

I am tending now to use OEM licenses as I don't tend to upgrade very much once the system is built, (at least not the motherboard anyway), and even if I do upgrade something which requires a new license then it takes several purchases of the OEM version before you get to the cost of the full retail product.

 

[neil_g]

volume licencing rocks.

 

[bikes]

The case against the defendant is dismissed for lack of evidence!

I rest my case (on the dining room table)

 

[MarcLister]

I rest my case (on the dining room table)

Send me the key and I'll double check.

 

[bikes]

Send me the key and I'll double check.

The door key I presume lol

 

[MarcLister]

The door key I presume lol

Cheekiness will not be tolerated in the court room!

 

[bikes]

Cheekiness will not be tolerated in the court room!

Contempt of court

 

[MarcLister]

Yeah!