Vista 64 Ultimate Retail or OEM?

Morthoseth said:
At the end of the day, i gave Microsoft £200+, which in my books makes me better than the people who simply pirate operating systems, i have changed mobo once or twice simply because i needed to as far as upgrades went, as i see it - that is the same system. I suppose that isnt how Microsofts lawyers would see it, but i'm sure they would rather prosecute those who download the whole thing for free!

At least they had some money from me :)
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If you paid £200+ then that must have been for a retail copy of an OS as OEM is nowhere near that price. If it is retail you are perfectly entitled to change mobo's.
 
Brian Stuart said:
If you paid £200+ then that must have been for a retail copy of an OS as OEM is nowhere near that price. If it is retail you are perfectly entitled to change mobo's.
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My mistake, when i got it on the day it came out it wasn't quite that much - more £130 or something along those lines, but still my point stands, i just plucked a random number out of the air :)

The funny thing is, i would be willing to bet a lot of the people who complain about people doing this sort of thing, are probably the same ones with pirate copies of photoshop and the like, or downloaded music for free and so on.
 
The reason I have licensed copies of Windows is so that I can remain 100% licence legal on all the PC's in our house.
Both me and the wife have a workstation, we also have a laptop and I have a small server.

Every single piece of software on each of thee machines is 100% legal - right down to the $10 shareware programs.
No illegal MP3's, only ones bought from iTunes or created from our own CDs.

It's not difficult to be license legal.
Do I need Photoshop - No, Photoshop Elements will do nicely.
Office 2007 is nice and cheap for 3 PC's these days...

It's really not a difficult concept - if you use something then you pay for it and stick within the limits of the license granted to you.
If you can't be bothered to stay within the constraints of the license then you might just as well steal what you want.
 
stoofa said:
The reason I have licensed copies of Windows is so that I can remain 100% licence legal on all the PC's in our house.
Both me and the wife have a workstation, we also have a laptop and I have a small server.

Every single piece of software on each of thee machines is 100% legal - right down to the $10 shareware programs.
No illegal MP3's, only ones bought from iTunes or created from our own CDs.

It's not difficult to be license legal.
Do I need Photoshop - No, Photoshop Elements will do nicely.
Office 2007 is nice and cheap for 3 PC's these days...

It's really not a difficult concept - if you use something then you pay for it and stick within the limits of the license granted to you.
If you can't be bothered to stay within the constraints of the license then you might just as well steal what you want.
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As with myself, using a vast amount of freeware - including the likes of GIMP instead of photoshop, Visual Studio Express and so on, Open Office is also fantastic. I just dont know anyone who bought OEM (Perhaps by mistake, as my father has done in the past, without understanding the meaning) who would purchase a new copy of it every time they changed a motherboard.

If you were in my position, and bought a new motherboard while already owning the OEM version of vista, you are telling me you'd buy it again for £100 to remain license legal? If Microsoft allow it, you'd may as well throw your £100 out of the window, its not like car insurance.
 
Morthoseth said:
As with myself, using a vast amount of freeware - including the likes of GIMP instead of photoshop, Visual Studio Express and so on, Open Office is also fantastic. I just dont know anyone who bought OEM (Perhaps by mistake, as my father has done in the past, without understanding the meaning) who would purchase a new copy of it every time they changed a motherboard.

If you were in my position, and bought a new motherboard while already owning the OEM version of vista, you are telling me you'd buy it again for £100 to remain license legal? If Microsoft allow it, you'd may as well throw your £100 out of the window, its not like car insurance.
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Stoofa must me a one-in-a-million but that's entirely up to him what he chooses to do.

RoEy
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Either way according to MS you should not be buying OEM.
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Agreed, at the time of preordering Vista i actually did not know the difference myself between OEM and Retail, infact at the time i think my reckoning was i bought an OEM CPU and should get OEM Vista! D'oh!

But i wont go out and buy a retail version based on that mistake :)

Edit-- I suppose i failed to see the point of the thread, as stated above it isnt as if i bought the OEM version purposely to use it illegaly, if that was my original plan i should have just pirated it, but i didnt!
 
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Morthoseth said:
Agreed, at the time of preordering Vista i actually did not know the difference myself between OEM and Retail, infact at the time i think my reckoning was i bought an OEM CPU and should get OEM Vista! D'oh!

But i wont go out and buy a retail version based on that mistake :)

Edit-- I suppose i failed to see the point of the thread, as stated above it isnt as if i bought the OEM version purposely to use it illegaly, if that was my original plan i should have just pirated it, but i didnt!
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I was also referring to this: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17969729&highlight=hobbyists
 
Ok, so what are the main differences between Home Premium and Ultimate? I may choose to purchase Home Premium Retail.

RoEy
 
RoEy said:
Ok, so what are the main differences between Home Premium and Ultimate? I may choose to purchase Home Premium Retail.

RoEy
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Listed here. Main difference is Ultimate can be joined to a domain, which you probably won't need for home use.

Another reason to go for retail, it includes both the 32bit and 64bit versions (OEM includes one disk, although the licence covers either).
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
Listed here. Main difference is Ultimate can be joined to a domain, which you probably won't need for home use.

Another reason to go for retail, it includes both the 32bit and 64bit versions (OEM includes one disk, although the licence covers either).
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Cheers for info.

RoEy
 
Brian Stuart said:
People who wish to remain legal do or they buy retail in the first place.
Do not judge everyone by your standards.
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Go by my example, you purchase OEM without knowing the difference, you change motherboards down the line, do you;

A) Think "Oh No!" And rush off to the local PC store and buy another copy
B) Install motherboard, install windows, activate away without issue and carry on with your business

Would it really play on your conscience that much by reinstalling the OEM copy again? As that is the only possible effect if could have on you, as Microsoft certainly dont care.
 
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