Another Vista Thread (licensing issues!!)

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So here I am willing to spend up to £350 on an operating system. I have two computers at home. I would ideally like to buy Ultimate Retail and use it on both my computers, which if I bought OSX on the Mac I would be more than entitled to do (£100 and OSX is yours. ie you can use it on all your comps).

Now I know MS are going on about single comp use etc, but EULA aside, is it possible to run the same Vista on both my desktop comps and if not how can I get a separate license (presumably a second license is cheaper after purchase of the first)?

 

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Er no. 1 copy of OSX comes with 1 OSX licence to use one 1 Apple Computer at once. You don't pay £100 for OSX from Apple and install it on every Mac in your house. Its exactly the same principle as Retail versions of Windows. If you buy one copy of OSX and use it on 3 Macs, you are breaking the law.

Sorry your right, my bad, it actually costs £139!!!

* Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household" we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium, but shall also extend to student members who are primary residents of that household but residing at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.

So back to the windows issue, seems like I shall go for home premium OEM to begin with in 64bit and take it from there.

Thanks for the help.

 

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Taken from http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html



Visa-Vi Cocordinately... you can only install MacOSX on one Mac at one time. You can transfer it from Mac to Mac, but only having it installed on one machine at once, is legal.

To clarify - buying one copy of MacOSX from Apple, gives you the right to Install it on *one* Apple machine at a time.

However, spending only £45 more gets u a license that allows you to install to five comps...go figure