beta 2 for schools

hi,

i am the network manager of a high school in england. i recently purchased
the public beta 2 version of vista for my own private use. now i wouyld like
to know if i can install it, in the staffroom initially, to ease my teachers
into the vista experience before the new year, would this be allowed?

You can make 10 installations with Beta 2 but I don't know if they have to be
in the same location.

Incidentally, at my school in England, we use capital letters for proper
nouns and the beginning of sentences.

"Roly" wrote:

> hi,
>
> i am the network manager of a high school in england. i recently purchased
> the public beta 2 version of vista for my own private use. now i wouyld like
> to know if i can install it, in the staffroom initially, to ease my teachers
> into the vista experience before the new year, would this be allowed?

thanks burrwalnut & good for you & your school. thanks for taking the time to
read & respond to my question

"BurrWalnut" wrote:

> You can make 10 installations with Beta 2 but I don't know if they have to be
> in the same location.
>
> Incidentally, at my school in England, we use capital letters for proper
> nouns and the beginning of sentences.
>
> "Roly" wrote:
>

> > hi,
> >
> > i am the network manager of a high school in england. i recently purchased
> > the public beta 2 version of vista for my own private use. now i wouyld like
> > to know if i can install it, in the staffroom initially, to ease my teachers
> > into the vista experience before the new year, would this be allowed?

Hi Roly,

The public beta license is for installing on up to 10 test machines. It
should not be used in a production environment. That said, setting up a demo
machine is well within the stated boundries of your license. I would not,
however, install it on multiple machines on the school's network.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Roly" <Roly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi,
>
> i am the network manager of a high school in england. i recently purchased
> the public beta 2 version of vista for my own private use. now i wouyld
> like
> to know if i can install it, in the staffroom initially, to ease my
> teachers
> into the vista experience before the new year, would this be allowed?

thanks to everyone who responded with sensible suggestions. i find that
teachers are very reluctant to embrace new technologies and i thought that
this would be a gentle introduction to vista.

this was always going to be a single, or maybe two, machine setup in the
staffroom. it was never ever going to be a mission critical machine. have you
seen a teacher's staffroom lately? not much mission critical stuff in there
at all.

thanks once again guys, you've been a great help. i will investigate the
early adopters option but i only came on here because i couldn't find the
right person at microsoft to email.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Roly,
>
> The public beta license is for installing on up to 10 test machines. It
> should not be used in a production environment. That said, setting up a demo
> machine is well within the stated boundries of your license. I would not,
> however, install it on multiple machines on the school's network.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Roly" <Roly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8FC3B8B7-B061-4DEB-8754-CFA4B19BE717@microsoft.com...

> > hi,
> >
> > i am the network manager of a high school in england. i recently purchased
> > the public beta 2 version of vista for my own private use. now i wouyld
> > like
> > to know if i can install it, in the staffroom initially, to ease my
> > teachers
> > into the vista experience before the new year, would this be allowed?

>
>

> thanks to everyone who responded with sensible suggestions. i find that

> teachers are very reluctant to embrace new technologies and i thought that
> this would be a gentle introduction to vista.

Dropping a beta OS on a group of people who are "very reluctant to embrace
new technologies" is a "gentle introduction"?

It is if it done in a non-threatening way such as a freely available demo
machine and a little publicity.

"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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>> thanks to everyone who responded with sensible suggestions. i find that
>> teachers are very reluctant to embrace new technologies and i thought
>> that
>> this would be a gentle introduction to vista.

>
> Dropping a beta OS on a group of people who are "very reluctant to embrace
> new technologies" is a "gentle introduction"?
>
>

> It is if it done in a non-threatening way such as a freely available demo

> machine and a little publicity.

I can see people going "what's with all these scary warnings?" and being
even less interested with "any of that sh*t"...

If you wanna make a good first impression, don't use a beta.