MultiOS USB Stick II

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Sa, 2013-03-23 at 19:22 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> No, I didn't!
> 
> 
> I thought you buy a licence from Microsoft, and you can use whatever
> installation media (as long as you have the suitable licence for it at
> install time).
> 
one license is usually bound to one machine and install media ... the
install media can even differ per license ...

if you buy a windows PC with windows preinstalled the license is usually
bound to the shipped install media (the holographic sticker on the
machine usually matches the sticker on the shipped CD) or to the Win
version in the recovery partition (which has the matching product key
stamped into the disk image). if the install key of the installed
version doesn't match any media you own, they consider that a pirated
copy.

if your iso isn't a multi install allowed OEM version (which is usually
very expensive but also only comes with a limited number of product
keys) you are allowed to do exactly one install from it to one physical
machine, every additional installation would again be considered piracy
by microsoft ...

there are some exceptions from this for educational institutes etc but
generally you can only serve one machine from one iso legally (or pay a
lot for extending this)

ciao
	oli
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