Vista Licenses

[Thrawn]

So a buddy of mine is building a computer for the first time (and probably shouldn't be).  He was telling me about how he's just going to just run a newer video card with DirectX 10 in XP for a while because he doesn't want to go to Vista yet, sigh.

So now he's saying someone he plays CS with for no apparent good reason just happens to have a Corporate Edition of Vista laying around with 150 extra licenses to just give out to whoever wants them.  Now I don't know much about how the corporate licensing works and such so thats why I figured I'd toss up a post here.  The whole thing sounds fishy to me and I'm guessing he's gonna get bitten in the ass by it somehow.  But, I don't know enough about how the licensing works on that stuff.  Is it actually possible he'll be fine running that?  He offered to get me in on it as well but I told him no thanks for now.

[Shirow]

Yes, he would probably be fine. Depends how well the corporation tracks their license usage. Most don't :)

[Slay]

PM me :)

[Bizzah]

hook me up, I'll test anything.

As long as the dude doesnt pass along a "keygen.exe" that steals the dude's passwords or something, I dont see a problem.

If you can get your hands on a dvd iso (is that even what a DVD image file is called?) and the dude sends a text file with the license key - it should be money.

The copy of XP Pro I run is a corporate key and I can get windows udpates and service packs and everything. 

[tonguerot]

Corporate licenses don't work the way they used to. In XP you didn't have to activate or anything. With Vista Microsoft now requires a corporate activation server, if you don't check in parts of your OS become disabled.. I wouldn't go there

[Zaljerem]

Corporate licenses don't work the way they used to. In XP you didn't have to activate or anything. With Vista Microsoft now requires a corporate activation server, if you don't check in parts of your OS become disabled.. I wouldn't go there

Where there's a security measure, there's a crack. But I wouldn't go to Vista yet anyway; it's bloated, slow, and in serious need of patching. I'm personally not touching it until SP1.

[staggs]

Corporate licenses don't work the way they used to. In XP you didn't have to activate or anything. With Vista Microsoft now requires a corporate activation server, if you don't check in parts of your OS become disabled.. I wouldn't go there

Where there's a security measure, there's a crack. But I wouldn't go to Vista yet anyway; it's bloated, slow, and in serious need of patching. I'm personally not touching it until SP1.

Agreed, I have it sitting on a harddrive in my computer thats unplugged....I'll hook it up when it's not a big POS and use it.