Windows Vista Ultimate licensing

[Guest]

I have followed Vista along as it has been developing as part of the public
preview program, and am still using rc1 as a primary os at this moment, but
there is one question that has been stuck on my mind. I am a 6th form student
(aged 17) at a grammar school with a satruday job, and my friends and i wish
to purchase vista ultimate together. I know that in the test releases, the
product key has allowed install on up to 10 pc's, and i hope that this will
be the same for the RTM version, as it would take me about 15 weeks to save
for ultimate on my own. I know that Apple have a mutli user licence for their
$400 release of mac osx for 10 clients, and i would love it if microsoft did
the same.
Thanks for any help, this has bugged me for a while,
JP

 

[Jane C]

There is no multi-user retail licence. One licence, one install.

 

[Peter M]

And even with Apple, 10 clients, one IP. So unless you all lived in the same
house.....

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

One license, one computer, the same as it has been since at least Windows
95.

As for the CPP, if you read the EULA carefully, that was 10 installations
for your computers, not your friends.
Your friends should have requested their own product keys.

Unfortunately if you each want Vista you will each need to buy it.
Check with your school, often there is academic licensing available and is
very cheap.
Also remember there are other versions than Ultimate and they are also
cheaper.

 

[Bill Walter]

Look into academic licensing I don't have any information on VISTA pricing,
but the pricing on all the Office 2003 products , XP Pro, and may other
student productivity products are up to 85% discount. For example Xp Pro is
$79 and Office Professional 2003 is also $79.

Take a look at https://www.shoptrc.com/savings/Default.aspx

Bill Walter

 

[Guest]

Thanks a lot for all of your replies, you have been very helpful. It appears
i did not read my EULA properly for the BETAs, although i only installed it
on one client mutliple times anyway, so thats okay. Again, thanks a lot, and
i will look into the academic licensing thing.
JP