windows server license .. cheap place to buy them

That is the going rate.

Unless you are able to source from a Secondary Software Licensing Centre (i.e. someone who specialising in reselling genuine pre-owned licenses), then any "cheap" licenses aren't necessarily going to be genuine, and are no better than pirated software.
 
Depending what your use case is you can sign up for Visual Studio and that gets you lots of licenses for a massive range of Microsoft products. The downside is that it's a subscription, probably not much cheaper than £1.5k depending on which subscription you go for (VS Pro is about £1,300/year IIRC) and most importantly you can't use the licenses for production, which means they can't be used for a business, only for development and testing.

There are much cheaper options available for buying single licenses but they tend to be unscrupulous types effectively reselling VS licenses, so they are genuine but subject to being revoked by MS at any time.
 
Bought licence from there for server 2008 back in 2010. Still working as of today :D
Far as im concerned money was exchanged and i got a receipt so im all in the clear. :cry:
 
Semple said:
Won't be an issue anymore 2008 is EOLed so is unsupported.
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got my 3 quids worth i guess. server 2016 licence was a bit cheaper and thats still going good for the last 5 years.

iv worked in IT places before where they do large deployments for companies and iv seen some staff make a note of the license key on the machine it self and either they end up using it for personal use or probably sell it on, this probably works since the machine doesnt use the license key it comes with and is re-imaged for corp use and uses volume license key instead. seen this done since the win xp era
 
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Cyber-Mav said:
got my 3 quids worth i guess. server 2016 licence was a bit cheaper and thats still going good for the last 5 years.

iv worked in IT places before where they do large deployments for companies and iv seen some staff make a note of the license key on the machine it self and either they end up using it for personal use or probably sell it on, this probably works since the machine doesnt use the license key it comes with and is re-imaged for corp use and uses volume license key instead. seen this done since the win xp era
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That's classed as theft surely.
 
GaryTheSnail said:
That's classed as theft surely.
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Indeed it is, its very common when i was contracting at various places seen it happening.
I asked someone once about it and the response was that the licence is already paid for and its not going to be used so it's a waste for it not to be used.
I suspect the ones you see on the bay are sourced from the same sort of methods.
E.g a company doing a 2000 machine rollout wont be using the individual licence codes that come with each machine but would have purchased a volume licence key that they will use in a system image that gets pushed out to all the builds.
Someone probably using those codes that comes with the machines for their own purposes.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Indeed it is, its very common when i was contracting at various places seen it happening.
I asked someone once about it and the response was that the licence is already paid for and its not going to be used so it's a waste for it not to be used.
I suspect the ones you see on the bay are sourced from the same sort of methods.
E.g a company doing a 2000 machine rollout wont be using the individual licence codes that come with each machine but would have purchased a volume licence key that they will use in a system image that gets pushed out to all the builds.
Someone probably using those codes that comes with the machines for their own purposes.
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I think most of the cheap ones online are actually from msdn/visual studio accounts. For pretty much all of Microsofts software I can generate up to 10 license keys, and some are multi-use.

I seem to recall when Windows 10 launched a guy on here tried selling all his generated keys, until someone pointed out that you can't sell them.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Indeed it is, its very common when i was contracting at various places seen it happening.
I asked someone once about it and the response was that the licence is already paid for and its not going to be used so it's a waste for it not to be used.
I suspect the ones you see on the bay are sourced from the same sort of methods.
E.g a company doing a 2000 machine rollout wont be using the individual licence codes that come with each machine but would have purchased a volume licence key that they will use in a system image that gets pushed out to all the builds.
Someone probably using those codes that comes with the machines for their own purposes.
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That's probably why they activate successfully on new machines lol
 
Semple said:
I think most of the cheap ones online are actually from msdn/visual studio accounts. For pretty much all of Microsofts software I can generate up to 10 license keys, and some are multi-use.

I seem to recall when Windows 10 launched a guy on here tried selling all his generated keys, until someone pointed out that you can't sell them.
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I know someone who used to sell MSDN / Student keys when the old portal would generate unlimited about of keys! Sneaky!

Wasn't me but the department shut down and the accounts were closed.
 
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