Windows 7: It is legal to install Windows 7 on customers computers?

miros84 · 15 Sep 2013

Hi,

I have several customers that ask me to install them Windows 7, but they dont have licence. Can I install them Windows 7 home edition and warn them they have 30 days to active it buying a license?

Is that legal?

NoelDP · 15 Sep 2013

No
Every installation requires a valid license.

oreo27 · 15 Sep 2013

So let me get this straight, you need a license to install a trial?

miros84 · 15 Sep 2013

Why not?
Everybody can download and install windows and try before buy it. You can download windows leaglly from internet and later install it. Why you said no? Explain yourself.

miros84 · 15 Sep 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by oreo27

So let me get this straight, you need a license to install a trial?

No, customer want to install him Windows. I install him trial Windows and warn customer that he has 30 days to buy a license. I think this is lagal, because you can download trial Windows from different oficial sites.

oreo27 · 15 Sep 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by miros84

Quote: Originally Posted by oreo27

So let me get this straight, you need a license to install a trial?

No, customer want to install him Windows. I install him trial Windows and warn customer that he has 30 days to buy a license. I think this is lagal, because you can download trial Windows from different oficial sites.

Yes, I am aware of that. I was just clarifying if you need a license to install a trial version of Windows. This is common practice in our country and I also do that sometimes thinking it's perfectly okay.

NoelDP · 15 Sep 2013

The only legal trial versions of Windows are those for Enterprise - which are time-limited.
The so-called 'trial installs' done with the default Key are merely a backstop and are not in fact trials at all.

From the License terms for Windows 7....

Quote:

If properly licensed, you have the right to use the version of the software installed
during the installation process up to the time permitted for activation.

oreo27 · 15 Sep 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by NoelDP

The only legal trial versions of Windows are those for Enterprise - which are time-limited.
The so-called 'trial installs' done with the default Key are merely a backstop and are not in fact trials at all.

From the License terms for Windows 7....

Quote:

If properly licensed, you have the right to use the version of the software installed
during the installation process up to the time permitted for activation.

Well, that's something I certainly didn't know. If this is truly the case, then a lot of IT stores and technicians, including me, in this country are violating the agreement.

I guess an alternative would be to install a Linux distro such as The world's most popular free OS | Ubuntu on client machines.

miros84 · 15 Sep 2013

Linux is OK. All Linux are free. But some peaple wants Windows. Then where can I download Enterprise edition?

NoelDP · 15 Sep 2013

It took a bit of finding - everything is now pointing to Win8 Evaluation downloads - but if you're lucky, you can get it from this link.
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