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BoomAM

BoomAM

BoomAM

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Hi.
As part of my job, im legally aloud to use whatever MS software at work on my personal machines at home. Im planning on installing Vista Business on my laptop and then using it at work as my main system.

When i come to install it, will it throw a wobbly because my XP Licence is different to the volume licence? As the disk itself isnt bootable, and requires the install to be run from XP.

Thanks in advance all. :)
 
Nevemrind I think it is the key that determines if you need xp installed before allowing vista :o
 
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Graeme43 said:
If you got a Vista disk from another source ;) :rolleyes: any vista key has worked on all the disks I have seeing as I have MSDN which gives you disk download + some vista keys
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Think what you want, but my job position entities me, legally, to use any and all MS software that my work gets. Vista arrived this morning.

Am i going to have to wait till monday, install a work version of XP, then work version of Vista?
 
BoomAM said:
Think what you want, but my job position entities me, legally, to use any and all MS software that my work gets. Vista arrived this morning.

Am i going to have to wait till monday, install a work version of XP, then work version of Vista?
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Which type of licencing are you using at your school then? I'm curious. I work at a school and i'm not aware of any type of volume licencing agreement that allows staff to install it at home on their personal machines.

I may be wrong of course, which is why i'm asking.
 
If your xp is genuine and activated it should work

I assume it is a business upgrade version :) the worst it'll do is tell you it cant install
 
Tried&Tested said:
Which type of licencing are you using at your school then? I'm curious. I work at a school and i'm not aware of any type of volume licencing agreement that allows staff to install it at home on their personal machines.

I may be wrong of course, which is why i'm asking.
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I teach at a college, I can legally install any Windows they have. I'm not sure what licence they have mind.
 
Im not discussing the ins/outs of this, i know what the licence says, can we stick to the question ive asked please. :)

The XP on my laptop is the IBM supplied one on my thinkpad, so although the licence key is different to the volume one, i should still be ok?
 
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its probably an action pack subscription that your NOT ALLOWED to install at home.

I work in the IT industry selling amonst other things OEM and all types of MS licences. Im sceptical unless you tell me what the name is of the type of licence youve got.
 
BoomAM said:
Im not discussing the ins/outs of this, i know what the licence says, can we stick to the question ive asked please. :)

The XP on my laptop is the IBM supplied one on my thinkpad, so although the licence key is different to the volume one, i should still be ok?
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I'm not quizzing you, i'd genuinely like to know what licence offers this to users at the workplace and at home. Would be useful. Please, info.
 
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I'm not quizzing you, i'd genuinely like to know what licence offers this to users at the workplace and at home. Would be useful. Please, info.
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I'll find out when im next in for you. :)
It appears to have installed fine. It wont activate for some reason, a DNS error strangly enough, and a 3 day time out. So hopefully it'll be fine if i try activating from the network at work.
 
Like, BoomAM, I received my copy of Windows Vista Business via my work. It's a volume pack. With 10 keys. We also get the latest Microsoft software every couple of months, and yearly. Due to the Action pack we're signed up to with them..;)
 
meh well ive got acess to the volume license too.... and we've got 5000 vista activations we can use :D
 
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