Due to the unique way these forums are moderated I'm only referring to OcUK prices of course:
Windows 7 - OEM or Retail
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Due to the unique way these forums are moderated I'm only referring to OcUK prices of course:
Find someone who has a son/daughter, is a teacher, or at some point went to schoolD)...
Get student license... profit! You can still get student offers from various places, making a retail copy of win7pro about £40.
How does that help?
Only the person who went to school and their immediate family can use the license.
If you're going to go and find somebody to get you a student license which you are certainly not allowed to use (due to the license agreement) you might just as well go and download your OS from the net - it will be just as legal.
OP - Buy retail.
A retail copy of the OS is good for the life of the OS.
For as long as you want to use it you can install it, uninstall it, move it from machine to machine and then ultimately sell it on.
OEM - buy once, tied to the original motherboard and can't be resold (and in theory you can't actually buy it and use it anyway).
Stick to the far better license for only around £15 more.
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Please quote me where in the licence this is stated.
You are asking me where in the "Special, order from Microsoft Direct - requiring a school or university email address" it says only for use by the student or immediate family?
Are you sure you know about licensing?
You're not getting that version confused with the "Home/Student" retail version are you?
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Yes, that requires the eligibility requirements for purchasing the licence. It says nothing about it's use and neither does the licence. You seem to make rather far fetch extrapolations from rather simple requirements.
You need a college or school email address to purchase the license.
The license is non-transferrable.
So only the person who can purchase the license can use it.
Pretty straight forward.
So somebody cannot cimply buy a copy for someone else.
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Your right in the fact that only a student can qualify to purchase and licence the machine, however, I don't have a copy of the ultimate steal EULA, so I can't check up on transferability once the machine is licensed. Fancy quoting me this bit?
The direct-from-MS deal is over a long time ago, but there are websites that offer the same deal, for £43 instead of the MS offer price of £30.
Perhaps they use the same license, I didn't check the terms. We used the details of the child and the PC is the "family" PC for the household. Mainly used by the parents, but also used by the child for various things.
I fail to see how that could be an abuse of the terms, whatever they are. MS can't stipulate that parents can't use a child's PC, that would be daft
Perhaps they use the same license, I didn't check the terms. We used the details of the child and the PC is the "family" PC for the household. Mainly used by the parents, but also used by the child for various things.
I fail to see how that could be an abuse of the terms, whatever they are. MS can't stipulate that parents can't use a child's PC, that would be daft
The simplest way to look at buying retail. If you choose to install the 32 bit version and later on you wish to have the 64 bit version, you can actually save money by buying the retail version. he retail version comes with the choice of the 64 bit or the 32 bit version of the O/S plus the ability to change motherboard or any component you wish during the licensed ownership of the software.
I hope this clarifies things for you in a much more user friendly fashioned way.
I hope this clarifies things for you in a much more user friendly fashioned way.
The majority of the previous 30 crystal clear posts not being clear and user friendly you mean?