Dreamspark Premium questions

[Deus Ex]

Hi,
Being a very lucky and tenuous science student I have been gifted with Dreamspark premium, which is awesome.
I've tried basically to smash as many keys as possible, but I'm unsure as to how some of them will work.

I got 1 normal windows 8 prof, 1 great britain windows 8 prof, and 1 french edition with language pack.

Now, will this language pack let me turn everything english?

Also I got another key for windows 8.1 preview, is this a normal retail windows 8 key with just a link to a preview build. Also will I get another set of 3/4 keys when the final version of 8.1 gets released?

I also thought every service pack netted you fresh keys, why have I only managed to get 2 for windows 7? I swore it had a service pack?

Tl;Dr How do I make sure I get as many keys as I can from dreamspark premium.

 

[Rooster212]

Generally you get one key from each "group" of keys, so for example if there is a Debug Checked build, a debug with service pack, and a standard you can only claim one. Windows 8.1 is (essentially) a service pack, so to be honest there probably will be at least 1 key to claim, but because you have already claimed for 8 I'm not sure. I managed to claim one for Windows 7 32 bit and one for Windows 7 64 bit.

At the end of the day, you can get an ISO from somewhere else with 8.1 and use the Windows 8 keys you already have because they are reusable. You generally get 5 installs out of one key anyway I believe, although don't quote me on that

 

[Deus Ex]

Cheers Rooster, I assume you are using MSDN licence? I seem to get keys which do 64 or 32 only, seems standard, in my cart it just gives a sdm download link for either and then a key for either. Also the keys seem to only work with the sdm isos, not the digital river ones, which is impractical as the download manager is shockingly bad.

Also the check/debug build seems to be keyless for me?