Question about Vista licence

Salohcin · 28 Oct 2007 at 19:29

Well, I'll be getting a laptop with Vista Ultimate bundled. At home, there are two (and potentially a further three later on) desktop computers on the way. Obviously, I'd like to have Vista Ultimate on them all, and I have no experience really of buying licences and so on for additional users, and the information I've seen on the Microsoft website aren't really clear.

Would it be possible for me to use the Vista Ultimate as bundled with the laptop on the desktops by buying additional licences for them (therefore paying less, etc)?

And will the same licence principle apply to Microsoft Office? It won't be bundled with the laptop though.

Cheers.

vanandjuanunited · 28 Oct 2007 at 19:30

No you will have to buy separate licences (discs) for them. Not sure about office. Some allow installation on a couple of pcs. Someone else can answer.

Why do you need ultimate?

csmager · 28 Oct 2007 at 19:36

The Discs cost peanuts. There really would be no difference in cost.

License only isn't available to the general public, anyway.

Burnsy2023 · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:31

You will need to buy full Windows licences either via the OEM or retail products.

As for Office, if you get the retail version, you are licensed for a desktop and one mobile device (laptop) on the same licence. You can get Office OEM licences without any media but you will need to buy a media kit (about £20) to install it.

Burnsy

deuse · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:40

microsoft was doing extra Vista Ultimate licences for £50 each and you could have up to 3

As long as you had a full version of Vista Ultimate.
I would email microsoft.

Slackworth · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:38

Burnsy2023 said:
As for Office, if you get the retail version, you are licensed for a desktop and one mobile device (laptop) on the same licence. You can get Office OEM licences without any media but you will need to buy a media kit (about £20) to install it.

Burnsy

If it's not for a commercial environment then you can purchase Office Home & Student 2007 for little money but allows 3 users to use one key whether it be a laptop or home PC. Office 2007 cannot be sold as OEM anymore unless you buy a PC with the free trial installed. Still plenty of 2003 OEM about though.

If you buy a retail copy of Ultimate I believe you get a couple of Home Premium licenses included for free but this doesn't really help you getting Ultimate on the other PCs.

stoofa · 29 Oct 2007 at 12:55

You really don't start to see any kind of serious savings with regards licenses until you start looking at >10 copies and even then at the lower end you don't save that much.
You first need to question if you need Vista Ultimate on all the machines.
99% of people don't/didn't need XP Professional on their machines and XP Home was quite enough.

If it's a non-commercial environment then Office 2007 Home & Student which can be purchased at a rather good price and installed on any 3 machines makes a very cost effective purchase.