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We received a software license for a single Windows 2003 Server Standard
Edition that I believe is either pirated or some kind of misrepresentation
about the type of license. The license we received has the product key on
an orange Product Key sticker. I have seen such stickers used on MSDN
software and on evaluation or promotional software that Microsoft
distributes, but I have never seen this orange product key sticker on the
retail products. The orange sticker has near it a bar code that says "CD
SET: X09-22117". Unfortunately, a Google search on that part number
shows nothing, so I am hoping someone from Microsoft can use that number to
trace the manufacturing part number to some actual product, and help me
definitively identify what we received.
What would be great would be a web site where I could plug in a product key
and get back at very least identification of whether this is a retail, OEM,
open license, etc, but per an earlier thread Microsoft apparently doesn't
give buyers any tools for identifying any piece of information about product
keys.
I don't want to go nuclear on the seller until I have my facts in place, and
I would appreciate some help.
Edition that I believe is either pirated or some kind of misrepresentation
about the type of license. The license we received has the product key on
an orange Product Key sticker. I have seen such stickers used on MSDN
software and on evaluation or promotional software that Microsoft
distributes, but I have never seen this orange product key sticker on the
retail products. The orange sticker has near it a bar code that says "CD
SET: X09-22117". Unfortunately, a Google search on that part number
shows nothing, so I am hoping someone from Microsoft can use that number to
trace the manufacturing part number to some actual product, and help me
definitively identify what we received.
What would be great would be a web site where I could plug in a product key
and get back at very least identification of whether this is a retail, OEM,
open license, etc, but per an earlier thread Microsoft apparently doesn't
give buyers any tools for identifying any piece of information about product
keys.
I don't want to go nuclear on the seller until I have my facts in place, and
I would appreciate some help.