Installing Vista on 2 PCs

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Hi. I am a self employed writer and I have 2 PCs - a desktop and a laptop
that I use when visiting clients. I want to install Vista and Microsoft
Office (for Vista) on both PCs - I haven't made the purchase yet but am
looking at the Home Permium version.

The packages being sold at PC World seem to imply that these are single
licence versions. Can I use the same CD to install on both PCs, do I have to
buy 2 copies, or is there a version designed for people like me who use 2 PCs?

Many thanks
 
Thanks

Does that mean I have to buy 2 single licence versions or is there a version
that allows for 2 licences?
 
Microsoft has introduced a 10% discount on a second license (which does not
include the DVD).
 
chinga69 said:
you need 2 licenses one for each puter
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For Vista, yes you're quite correct and it's been that way for a while now
for the OS.

Office 2007, however, is quite happy to let him do what he likes with only
one copy and one licence.
 
Windows Vista Family Discount
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/familydiscount.mspx


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Carey Frisch
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Hi. I am a self employed writer and I have 2 PCs - a desktop and a laptop
that I use when visiting clients. I want to install Vista and Microsoft
Office (for Vista) on both PCs - I haven't made the purchase yet but am
looking at the Home Permium version.

The packages being sold at PC World seem to imply that these are single
licence versions. Can I use the same CD to install on both PCs, do I have to
buy 2 copies, or is there a version designed for people like me who use 2 PCs?

Many thanks
 
You can install Windows Vista on another computer using the same product key
but when it comes to actiavate it use the telephone actiavtion and this
should let you install one license on 2 pcs worked for me dont see why not
for anyone else.
 
Using the same license on two different PCs is a direct violation
of Vista's licensing agreement. Eventually, the WGA file will flag the
second installation as "non-genuine" and you'll end up having to
purchase a new Product Key for the second installation.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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You can install Windows Vista on another computer using the same product key
but when it comes to actiavate it use the telephone actiavtion and this
should let you install one license on 2 pcs worked for me dont see why not
for anyone else.
 
Office 2007, however, is quite happy to let him do what he likes with only
one copy and one licence.
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Robert,

What do you mean by that? You are able to install Office 2007 on two
different PC's with the same key?
Is that part of the EULA and if so, when did they change that? I always
thought it was a per PC deal.

Rob
 
That's what he said. Reread.

Rob said:
Robert,

What do you mean by that? You are able to install Office 2007 on two
different PC's with the same key?
Is that part of the EULA and if so, when did they change that? I always
thought it was a per PC deal.

Rob
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Rob said:
Robert,

What do you mean by that? You are able to install Office 2007 on two
different PC's with the same key?
Is that part of the EULA and if so, when did they change that? I always
thought it was a per PC deal.
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Ok, taken from the Word 2007 EULA on my machine. Note that this is for a
*retail* licence.

"2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
license, you must assign that license to one device. That device is the
"licensed device." A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a
separate device.
a. Licensed Device. You may install and use one copy of the software on the
licensed device.
b. Portable Device. You may install another copy on a portable device for
use by the single primary user of the licensed device.
c. Separation of Components. The components of the software are licensed as
a single unit. You may not separate the components and install them on
different devices."

So I buy one copy. I own one licence. I can install Office onto my desktop
and "my" laptop for *ME* to use, both at my desk and when on the move. In
other words, it isn't designed for a family with two computers to use two
copies of Office at the same time, but for one owner of a retail licence to
use Office on their desktop machine and also to be able to put it on their
laptop for when they are travelling without access to the primary machine,
using one copy of Office at a time. Hope that makes sense (well I can't help
it if the licence makes 'sense' or not, but I hope my clarification of what
I was trying to say helps, I mean to say).

This has been the case for Office for as long as I can remember. The OS, as
you know, has a seperate deal: one licence per machine "and th th thats all
folks!" as looney tunes used to say.
 
Download Help said:
You can install Windows Vista on another computer using the same product
key
but when it comes to actiavate it use the telephone actiavtion and this
should let you install one license on 2 pcs worked for me dont see why not
for anyone else.
Click to expand...


Yeah right. Of course to begin with you have to have absolutely no
integrity to either do it or recommend it. Not that there wouldn't end of
being problems anyway.
 
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