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

[Bob I]

If you buy a retail Windows operating system LICENSE then you can do
exactly that. The reason is that the license is assigned to YOU. On the
other hand IF you purchased an OEM license then the license is assigned
to the first box it is installed on, that's why it is an OEM license.
Arguing otherwise only indicates ignorance.

 

[Nil]

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.

And I feel that when it rains, it rains yummy cherry gum drops.

Sorry, I don't have the time to live in the real world.

 

[Lewis]

Thanks, Ken. The voice of reason, as always.

The page I linked to elsethread was from Microsoft and clearly states
that all versions of Windows 7 home are limited to ONE PROCESSOR.

 

[Charles Tomaras]

\>>>

The page I linked to elsethread was from Microsoft and clearly states
that all versions of Windows 7 home are limited to ONE PROCESSOR.

Now show us a link to a home computer on sale with more than one processor.
I haven't seen one in years. Or for your home build folks...show me a link
to a dual processor motherboard. They all kind of went away with the advent
of dual or more core single processors.

 

[Ken Blake]

\>>>

Now show us a link to a home computer on sale with more than one processor.
I haven't seen one in years. Or for your home build folks...show me a link
to a dual processor motherboard. They all kind of went away with the advent
of dual or more core single processors.

Your point is a good one, but it's also true that what Lewis said "all
versions of Windows 7 home are limited to ONE PROCESSOR" is correct. I
was wrong on that point, and I apologize.

However I was correct in everything else I said in reply to his
message, and he *was* confusing multiple cores in a single processor
with multiple processors.

 

[Bob I]

\>>>

Now show us a link to a home computer on sale with more than one processor.
I haven't seen one in years. Or for your home build folks...show me a link
to a dual processor motherboard. They all kind of went away with the advent
of dual or more core single processors.

http://www.smarter.com/se--qq-dual motherboard sockets.html

Next!

 

[Charles Tomaras]

http://www.smarter.com/se--qq-dual motherboard sockets.html

Not saying they don't exist...you just don't see too many of them any more
and I doubt anyone building a box with one is gonna be on here asking about
Win7 keys for home.

 

[GreyCloud]

Not saying they don't exist...you just don't see too many of them any more
and I doubt anyone building a box with one is gonna be on here asking about
Win7 keys for home.

It was just a curious question for the op. But I've even found some
quad socket motherboards...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813151219

But then the majority of users of this calibre of board will be server
users or
for scientific users. But it would probably make an addicted gamer drool.

 

[GreyCloud]

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.

Not a practical idea tho. As time goes by, you'll be hard pressed to
find the hardware drivers for the older
operating systems.

 

[Lewis]

In message <[email protected]>

\>>>

Now show us a link to a home computer on sale with more than one processor.

Well, my home computer has two processors. My next wintendo will almost
certainly have two processors as well (unless I wait so long that the
new 6-cores are cheaper than buying 2x4core of the older ones).

I haven't seen one in years. Or for your home build folks...show me a link
to a dual processor motherboard.

<http://www.google.com/search?q=dual+processor+motherboard>

 

[Bob I]

Not a practical idea tho. As time goes by, you'll be hard pressed to
find the hardware drivers for the older
operating systems.

Certainly is a practical idea, it's available as the retail license, and
as far as "drivers", that's one of the determining factors of "you don't
need it anymore".