Vista U prices

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So an MSDN subscriber can download Vista and then install it on whatever pc
they will be using as a test system? All they do is download, burn to dvd
and with that product key just install it on a test system?
Is that right?
 
Nothing stops anyone from using your subscription IAW the EULA.
To a large degree, Microsoft trusts subscribers to follow the agreement they
have already accepted.
It is up to the integrity of the individual.

Installing anything from MSDN on a computer for others to use is a violation
of the MSDN EULA.

The license for the subscriber to use the components of the subscription
never expires.
When the subscription expires, you stop getting new material and lose some
support.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org
 
Yup. When you first get your subscription, Microsoft sends a whole bunch of
CDROMs and DVDs in CD-ROM suitcases so you may find that there's not much
that burning to do.

Thereafter you may install each and every one of the operating systems on up
to ten computers each. That's a fair bit of operating system. And there's no
limit to the number of times you can activate them. And instead of the usual
thirty days, they don't require activation for sixty days.

Plus you get full Visual Studio Pro and SQL Server and so on if you get the
MSDN Professional.

For anyone developing, programming, tinkering etc. etc. an MSDN (OS or Pro)
subscription at least once makes a lot of sense. And a big business using
the enterprise stuff can get MSDN ENterprise (although it is a bit pricey).

AMDX2 wrote:
| So an MSDN subscriber can download Vista and then install it on whatever
| pc they will be using as a test system? All they do is download, burn to
| dvd and with that product key just install it on a test system?
| Is that right?
|
|
| || To a large degree, MSDN is 10, but some items are unlimited.
|| Test/Demonstration only with an exception for one installation of Office
|| for production use.
|| In all cases, use is for the subscriber only and no one else.
|| Each individual using must have their own subscription.
||
|| --
|| Jupiter Jones [MVP]
|| http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
|| http://www.dts-l.org
||
||
|| ||| Rumours are the Premium and consumer editions of Windows Vista such as
||| Home Premium, Ultimate and Home Basic will not be a part of Volume
||| License and MSDN subscriptions because of the risk of licensing abuse
||| from these programs. You will be required to purchase them only through
||| OEM (new pc, qualifying hardware) and Retail channels. So you might only
||| get Vista Business in future subscription updates, as Vista Enterprise
||| will only be available for Volume License customers through Enterprise
||| Agreement.
|||
||| My understanding is, for the MSDN license agreement, the software is not
||| suppose to be used on production systems, its licensed to one machine,
||| if you install software from it on another machine, you have to
||| purchase an additional license for that machine.
||| --
||| --
||| Andre
||| Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
||| Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
||| Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
||| http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
|||
||| ||||| About $450 American .. half a grand .. more than the cost of many PCs!
||||| But
||||| it will have a lot of stuff one will never use, so it will be worth
||||| it. :)
|||||
||||| I'm pretty sure I'm going install it (or Vista B) on something.
||||| Although it
||||| may not be my "main" computer. For that either it, or Vista B, or stay
||||| with
||||| Server 2003 (as a workstation) ..
||||
|||| Well it looks like I'll be talking my bosses into renewing our MSDN
|||| subscription!
||||
|||| 8^)
||||
|||| Tom Lake
 
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