Windows trial?

[Guest]

I work in the tech dept of a community college, and weh have a volume lisence
for windows. The A+ class wants to have cd's for 98,2000 and xp to install
them and upgrade them. We usted to give them a ghost disk that would install
them but wouldn't let them upgrage. Now they want to upgrade them but we do
not want to give them the cd's with the volume lisence code. Is their a trial
version of vindows out there? It doesn't have to be fully functionl or a time
limit on it would be fine. Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

There are no trial versions of Windows XP available.

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| I work in the tech dept of a community college, and weh have a volume lisence
| for windows. The A+ class wants to have cd's for 98,2000 and xp to install
| them and upgrade them. We usted to give them a ghost disk that would install
| them but wouldn't let them upgrage. Now they want to upgrade them but we do
| not want to give them the cd's with the volume lisence code. Is their a trial
| version of vindows out there? It doesn't have to be fully functionl or a time
| limit on it would be fine. Thanks

 

[Steve N.]

I work in the tech dept of a community college, and weh have a volume lisence
for windows. The A+ class wants to have cd's for 98,2000 and xp to install
them and upgrade them. We usted to give them a ghost disk that would install
them but wouldn't let them upgrage. Now they want to upgrade them but we do
not want to give them the cd's with the volume lisence code. Is their a trial
version of vindows out there? It doesn't have to be fully functionl or a time
limit on it would be fine. Thanks

Any release of XP will allow you to use it unactivated for 30 days but
for upgrading you will need to use either a Full release or an Upgrade
release, an OEM release cannot do an upgrade over a previous version of
Windows.

Steve N.

 

[Steve N.]

There are no trial versions of Windows XP available.

Sure there are, all of them will allow use for 30 days without
activation. Not truly "trial versions' but they will certainly work for
the purposes of the class.

Steve N.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

There are trials for Windows XP, but AKAIK, they are all part of a book and
the cost would probably be prohibitive:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/7183.asp

What you suggest is not a trial.
Most reputable businesses will not violate the license agreement by using it
as a trial and are also unwilling to place themselves at risk of violating
the license.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I work in the tech dept of a community college, and weh have a volume lisence
for windows. The A+ class wants to have cd's for 98,2000 and xp to install
them and upgrade them. We usted to give them a ghost disk that would install
them but wouldn't let them upgrage. Now they want to upgrade them but we do
not want to give them the cd's with the volume lisence code. Is their a trial
version of vindows out there? It doesn't have to be fully functionl or a time
limit on it would be fine. Thanks

Why doesn't the school get an MSDN subscription for the class?

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[Steve N.]

There are trials for Windows XP, but AKAIK, they are all part of a book and
the cost would probably be prohibitive:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/7183.asp

What you suggest is not a trial.
Most reputable businesses will not violate the license agreement by using it
as a trial and are also unwilling to place themselves at risk of violating
the license.

Yeah, you're probably right. It was just an idea that would probably
work. They still have trials of Win2K3 server. Why not XP? Nevermind, I
know the answer... $$$

Steve