Vista business edition
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Topic: Vista business edition
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Vista business edition
Date Posted: 28 June 2007 at 4:14pm
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My uni gave me a free copy through the academic alliance. I get a genuine CD key and download the ISO to burn onto DVD from their site. Anyway I'm not particullary bothered about it, does anyone know if I'm allowed to sell it? Or does anyone know about any special academic alliance T&C? |
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 5:17pm
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i dont think u can sell it..all volume, bulk and OEM licenses are non transferable. In your case i think the license is tied to condition of being student of specfic university. Ofcourse if you don't care about the law you can as you please with it...
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Posted By: javi712
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 5:43pm
| sell it... vista sucks! |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 5:45pm
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There would be conditions on your liense as MS license are very strict. They have sent me 10 x licenses of Windows Vista Buiness but can only use them internally. Upgraded (or should I say downgraded) to Vista last January and wish I hadn't, as it just annoying slow even on a Core2 Due system with 2 gig of RAM and using the Windows Vista Basic interface as Areo is crap. As soon as I get some spare time will be going back to XP as Vista doesn't offer anything I can't do allot quicker under XP. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: javi712
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 6:12pm
| Same thing with me. I upgraded (or as you say... downgraded) to Vista and it was the worst mistake I could have made. Less than a week later I was reformatting my hard drive to install XP again. Vista is still a long way from being a reliable OS. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 6:50pm
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It's reliable enough as I have been running it for over 6 months and working on it at least 12 hours Monday to Friday, and it has only crashed once. Not had any drivers issues either. The only issue is the speed, if it could work a bit faster I would be happy with it. The constant pausing while it thinks what to do next drive me up the wall. If I was a patient person and didn't have a ton of work to get through I would be happy as it has everything XP has. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 6:58pm
I too am running Vista on a Core2Duo and have to say there are not performance snags for me, even with Aero enabled. It runs very fast. There are still some "quirks" granted but I prefer it over XP by now.
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Posted By: javi712
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 7:06pm
| First time I hear positive news about it. I installed it as soon as the final version came out. Most of my software and drivers didn't work. I was almost forced to re-install XP again so I could actually get some work done. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 10:38pm
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Maybe my software is "generic" but there were only minor things that glitched. I do understand that it may take some time for some vendors to update their software. Same was with XP in the beginning. Either way. XP is a good OS and as long as it works for you and you can do without vista-only-features, there is no harm :) ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 10:49pm
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Normally with me, if something can go wrong it will go wrong! So how surprised was i when on installing the RTM version of Vista (after being one of the beta testers) that it all worked fine with no problems, at great speed and with no compatibility problems (except for my creative webcam but who relies on Creative to supply good drivers for anything?). I've been running it since release date and haven't had to re-install or even clean up the install, something i used to have to do with XP on a almost bi-monthly basis. I was stuck using XP a few weeks ago while away and to say it felt clunky and amateurish is an understatement. I'll also like to say that i find the IIS7 interface far easier and my work flow has rocketed  I guess at the end of the day it's a personal choice just like everything. ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 11:39pm
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When XP came out the only thing I didn't have drivers for was Microsoft hardware, guess what the same has happened with Vista, the only hardware that I still do not have drivers for is my Microsoft Office Keyboard. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 21 July 2007 at 1:04am
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I ran vista premium on celeron 2ghz with 512MB RAM and it runs quite slick. Better than XP i would say. Only problems are software compatibility and typical M$ incompetency. Remember XP and 2000 wasn't perfect either at launch. As a tried and tested policy I will wait till service pack 1 or at least major bug fixes to be released before upgrading. A caveat to improving speed use compatible hardware, disable all fancy 3D effect and if you must use them to fascinate your kids then offload gfx processing to good GPU. Well are drivers necessary for those KBs??? All standard PS2 keyboards with fancy functions seem to work off standard enhanced KB driver. If one would stick to purchasing standardized WHQL listed hardware only then driver problems are vastly eliminated. Most of those drivers are included with OS all the time. Back at work, I have standardized all desktop purchases to hardware with drivers included in Windows. This really simplifies job a lot. ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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