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| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 25, 2015, 12:06:14 am ---then buy a cheap vista 2 win 7 upgrade key off the net.... --- End quote --- How cheap? It would be nice to move my cab to 7, but I hate sinking more money into an old budget PC. |
| Howard_Casto:
I was thinking for an oem key it was 15-20 bucks. I haven't looked in a few weeks though. |
| Slippyblade:
Not unless you know something I don't, Howard... which is quite possible. According to Microsoft, the "Key only" sales aren't legit. I'd have no problem paying $30 for Win7 though. 8, not so much. |
| Howard_Casto:
Hmm.... let me see if I can find a link. |
| JDFan:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on September 25, 2015, 03:30:59 pm ---Not unless you know something I don't, Howard... which is quite possible. According to Microsoft, the "Key only" sales aren't legit. I'd have no problem paying $30 for Win7 though. 8, not so much. --- End quote --- The key only sales are not 100% legit but the way the vendors work around that is the sale is a key from an old system that includes the system (if you want to pay additional shipping to get the non working system MOBO or go to their place of business to pick it up) -- So they are actually selling keys that are from defective units which per MS's EULA are technically able to be transferred to a new system. In most cases they will activate fine and never have a problem the only time you run into problems with them is if the original owner (usually a business that leased the systems) ever actually reloaded the OS and used the COA key to reinstall rather than the OEM activation that was used initially by DELL, HP, etc. (since when originally installed the system BIOS automatically activates the license with the OEM master key - but that key can not reactivate it thus the COA sticker placed on each system then needs to be used ) In most instances that COA key has never actually been entered and thus is just like a brand new unused key and will activate fine on any system since the activation server has never assigned it to a system. But MS tries to keep people from using them in this manner and will warn that you might have problems even though in 90%+ percent of the time it will activate fine and the key is then tied to the new system you used it for and will reactivate on that system for ever without problems. THe only time problems arise is if either the end user entered that key tying it to the original MOBO or someone copied the license code down and used it on another system (people do this on work systems at times and use the code on their home systems) Most of the online vendors that have been selling for a while realize this happens at times and if you notify them of a problem after purchase they will usually give you another code and it will work fine.(figure they buy the old used systems in bulk for pennies to resell the parts and the license keys so sending a new one to replace a non working one is not a big deal to them !!) |
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