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  1. Posts : 309
    Windows 7 Ultimate retail // Windows 7 build 7264 x64, Vista Home Premium SP2 x64
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       #11

    tw33k said:
    I know what you mean. There should be a deal where you can get extra keys as a lot of homes have more than one pc and a laptop etc. That's why I got a technet sub. I can get all I need for one payment. And thanks to a friend I saved over 200 bucks. Well worth it.
    Yeah. I mean I would even think it be reasonable to be able to buy an extra key for maybe a fourth of the price of the original OS price, being that people have multiple computers in their homes, heck, some people have multiple computers to themselves. I know tons of people who have a dekstop and a laptop. And having to buy two full price windows installations doesnt seem quite fair
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       #12

    grouchpunk08 said:
    Yeah. I mean I would even think it be reasonable to be able to buy an extra key for maybe a fourth of the price of the original OS price, being that people have multiple computers in their homes, heck, some people have multiple computers to themselves. I know tons of people who have a dekstop and a laptop. And having to buy two full price windows installations doesnt seem quite fair

    agree 100%. If I didn't have a technet sub there's no way I could buy 7 for me and my family. I'd have to resort to underground tactics...lol
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  3. Posts : 309
    Windows 7 Ultimate retail // Windows 7 build 7264 x64, Vista Home Premium SP2 x64
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       #13

    tw33k said:
    agree 100%. If I didn't have a technet sub there's no way I could buy 7 for me and my family. I'd have to resort to underground tactics...lol
    lol 'underground'... Whatever could that mean lol
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       #14

    grouchpunk08 said:
    lol 'underground'... Whatever could that mean lol
    I wouldn't know where to begin...
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  5. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 x64
       #15

    When you bought the PC's did the store give you two when you paid for 1?
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  6. Posts : 309
    Windows 7 Ultimate retail // Windows 7 build 7264 x64, Vista Home Premium SP2 x64
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       #16

    oldBear said:
    When you bought the PC's did the store give you two when you paid for 1?
    No need to be an A**hole.
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  7. Posts : 2,606
    Windows 7 Pro X64 SP1
       #17

    Everything old is new again. (?)

    As far as I can recall, Microsoft has always had the one OS license for each PC requirement. (Non-OS products were different.)

    XP introduced product activation in 2001 to enforce that.

    Vista made the upgrade license much more restrictive than for XP in 2007. (The XP upgrade version could easily be installed on a blank hard drive. A Vista upgrade has to be launched from a running qualifying OS.)

    I wish I knew what restrictions are on the Windows 7 upgrade version. The current preorder deals on upgrade versions are (relatively) attractive, but I worry that there may be even more restrictive installation requirements than for Vista.
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  8. Posts : 309
    Windows 7 Ultimate retail // Windows 7 build 7264 x64, Vista Home Premium SP2 x64
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       #18

    bobkn said:
    Everything old is new again. (?)

    As far as I can recall, Microsoft has always had the one OS license for each PC requirement. (Non-OS products were different.)

    XP introduced product activation in 2001 to enforce that.

    Vista made the upgrade license much more restrictive than for XP in 2007. (The XP upgrade version could easily be installed on a blank hard drive. A Vista upgrade has to be launched from a running qualifying OS.)

    I wish I knew what restrictions are on the Windows 7 upgrade version. The current preorder deals on upgrade versions are (relatively) attractive, but I worry that there may be even more restrictive installation requirements than for Vista.

    Yeah, We're each going to buy our own $50 Home premium upgrade disk. seems like the easiest and best way, for us at least, to go
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       #19

    bobkn said:
    Everything old is new again. (?)

    As far as I can recall, Microsoft has always had the one OS license for each PC requirement. (Non-OS products were different.)

    XP introduced product activation in 2001 to enforce that.

    Vista made the upgrade license much more restrictive than for XP in 2007. (The XP upgrade version could easily be installed on a blank hard drive. A Vista upgrade has to be launched from a running qualifying OS.)

    I wish I knew what restrictions are on the Windows 7 upgrade version. The current preorder deals on upgrade versions are (relatively) attractive, but I worry that there may be even more restrictive installation requirements than for Vista.
    Just to correct one slight discrepancy in your post :)

    Clean Install From Upgrade Vista - Vista Forums

    As far as I am aware this system will also be possible for Windows 7 Retail
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  10. Posts : 2,606
    Windows 7 Pro X64 SP1
       #20

    I was aware of the trick of running the upgrade from a demo version of Vista. (I've done it myself, as a convenience.)

    It's not much of a time saver over installing the old OS, and then launching a clean install using the upgrade license. It permits installing Vista on a blank HD with an upgrade license without having a qualifying older OS. That would be a violation of the license agreement, I believe.
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