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hulkster:
k so i'm the network admin for a company.  i have the vol license key for my business for the xp machines.  i have 2 machines at my house that i want to put win7 on.  i use both for work purposes as well so its been justified by my boss to have the vol license xp key on them both so theres no legal issue there.  heres my question...

if i buy the cheaper upgrade version of Win7 (like the student discount ones or the family pack of 3 for $150), and i do a clean install (which IS possible on the upgrade discs ive read) then could i use my XP volume license key on both machines?  or will that invalidate my xp vol lic key for work?  i obviously dont want to do that.  does anyone know if this will work??

Malenko:
I'm pretty sure you cant legally mix licenses ie volume key and student upgrade. It might work but your question seems to be about the legality of it, no the functionality of it.

hulkster:

--- Quote from: Malenko on October 22, 2009, 12:41:17 pm ---I'm pretty sure you cant legally mix licenses ie volume key and student upgrade. It might work but your question seems to be about the legality of it, no the functionality of it.

--- End quote ---

no my question is the functionality.  im paying for everything appropriately (volume licenses and upgrade discs legally)...i just want to know if it will do any kind of license key "conversion" to where it thinks that my xp vol lic key is now a win7 key and thus causing it to not work on new xp workstations i might use it on.  make sense?

ChadTower:

Of course, one doesn't pay for discs, one pays for licenses.  Licenses often come with discs but the value is the licenses.

I would be surprised if there is a way to convert an XP site license to a single user Win7 license.  That doesn't make sense from a licensing point of view.

dstone:
At my previous job, every time we received a new OS version, we would get a new volume key for it. So if we were installing XP, we would use the XP volume key. If we wanted to upgrade to say, Windows 7, we would have to use the Windows 7 volume key.

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