Where can I buy a legit/valid Windows 7 key?

[VanguardLH]

Look, I know what I am talking about and I understand the need for
rebates etc. I have got nothing against that. What I am objecting to is
the very fact that normal prices are artificially set very high in the
first place so that artificially high rebates can be given.

If you haven't yet grasped this point, then you haven't understood
marketing. It is natural for volume buyers to get rebates which the
manufacturer can actually afford to give because they are saving in
overheads by selling in volume. But the rebates are far, far higher that
the savings achieved by volume selling.

You talk like someone indoctrinated! Someone parroting!

How many end users do you personally know of, including yourself, that
purchase technical support from Microsoft for one license of Windows?
Most users that you are talking about have to get their Windows support
from the OEM'er, not Microsoft.

 

[VanguardLH]

Oh, I get it now. You either live in a socialist country where you get
what the gov't decides you get or you embrace socialism. Sorry,
Microsoft is based in a capitalist country.

There are countries where consensual sex begins at age 12. Doesn't
alter that it would be prosecuted here as pedophilia. Different
countries, different forms of gov't, different economics.

 

[Ant]

Hi, Ant.

Disks are cheap. Licenses and Product Keys are expensive. (What is Win7
UE?)

UE = Ultimate Edition.

Yes, you need to buy the retail package - either the full or the update
version.
You might want to start here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/home

Also, check out activation requirements at:
Get a new Windows 7 product key
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Get-a-new-Windows-7-product-key

Good luck!

RC

Thanks. Do they also make multiple keys for UE for home usage? I'd like
to use it more than one machines.
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[Ant]

Forget it. It is cheaper to buy a brand new computer with Win7 already

on it than buying the retail version of Win7.

I build my own PCs like you. :/
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[Ant]

http://www.windows7key.co.uk/index.asp

Is that even legal? Also, I am not in UK, but US.
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[Ant]

I went through a long drawn out deal with Acer a while back where a new

laptops license for Win7 was no longer valid. Microsoft had a site to get
valid. I paid them online, about $110.00 IIRC, and they validated the
license on line right then, and then sent me a Disc for it in case I ever
have to re do it. I suspect that if you go on line with the one you have
they will tell you it is not valid then offer the same. Might be a little
more for Ultimate if that is what you mean by UE, mine is the Home Premium.

Yes, UE is Ultimate Edition. Wow, that's a pain. I really hate this
whole DRM and activation. I am still using old XP Pro. SP3 and W2K
SP4, but I will need to move on if I keep using Windows. Yes, I do use
Linux/Debian and Mac OS X but there are upcoming games and other
softwares, support, etc. to deal with for Windows.
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[Char Jackson]

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My, my, you are very myrmecophilous.

 

[Winston]

Is that even legal? Also, I am not in UK, but US.

At the top right of the page you can select your currency: Euros, US
dollars or UK Pounds.

 

[Roy Smith]

UE = Ultimate Edition.





Thanks. Do they also make multiple keys for UE for home usage? I'd like
to use it more than one machines.

Not that I'm aware of, the only multiple key version that I do know
about for a home user is the family pack where you get 3 keys for Home
Premium. The only things that are missing from Home Premium as compared
to Ultimate are:

1. XP Mode
2. Ability to join a domain
3. Create backups over a network
4. Bitlocker Encryption
5. Multiple Language support

Most of these missing things can be added with third party software, so
it's your choice.


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[Ken Blake]

Thanks. Do they also make multiple keys for UE for home usage? I'd like
to use it more than one machines.

Sorry, no. If you want multiple copies, you need to buy them.

 

[The Seabat]

Damn, somebody hide Char's thesaurus. . . .please!

 

[Char Jackson]

Damn, somebody hide Char's thesaurus. . . .please!

LOL No worries, I'm done for now.

 

[Ant]

Thanks. Do they also make multiple keys for UE for home usage? I'd like

Not that I'm aware of, the only multiple key version that I do know
about for a home user is the family pack where you get 3 keys for Home
Premium. The only things that are missing from Home Premium as compared
to Ultimate are:

1. XP Mode

This is useful.

2. Ability to join a domain

Don't care for it.

3. Create backups over a network

Could be useful?

4. Bitlocker Encryption

Maybe useful? I use TrueCrypt since I use more than Windows OS'.

5. Multiple Language support

Is that IME and viewing like asian characters?

Most of these missing things can be added with third party software, so
it's your choice.

Ah. What are those alternatives and are they free?
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[Ant]

Thanks. Do they also make multiple keys for UE for home usage? I'd like

Sorry, no. If you want multiple copies, you need to buy them.

Bummer and thanks.
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[Ant]

I recently installed Windows 7 UE retail, but haven't activated it. I

At the top right of the page you can select your currency: Euros, US
dollars or UK Pounds.

Thank you, but what about my question? Does MS approve these keys?
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[Ant]

My, my, you are very myrmecophilous.


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[Ant]

Thank you, but what about my question? Does MS approve these keys?

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[jvalh]

Sorry, I don't have the time to read all these posts.

I feel that if one buys an operating system e.g. Win2K, Win7, etc you
are entitled to use it in box after box after box, and year after year,
until you decide that you don't need it any more.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Sorry, I don't have the time to read all these posts.

I feel that if one buys an operating system e.g. Win2K, Win7, etc you
are entitled to use it in box after box after box, and year after year,
until you decide that you don't need it any more.

If you buy a retail version, you do have that right. You can use it
in only one box at a time, but you can keep using it as long as you
like on as many machines as you like.

If you have an OEM version, you've paid quite a bit less for it. One
of the reasons it's cheaper is that you don't have the right to move
it to another machine.

 

[Ken Blake]

I feel that if one buys an operating system e.g. Win2K, Win7, etc you
are entitled to use it in box after box after box, and year after year,
until you decide that you don't need it any more.

See Tim Slattery's response, and let me add the following:

If you buy *anything*, you are entitled to use it in accordance with
whatever restrictions are put upon the sale by the manufacturer and
the seller (and by laws). If you don't like those restrictions, don't
buy it.