Does Vista only allow 1 licence on 1 machine?

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> "HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How do i
> > transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work. How many
> > computer does 1 home premium licence will support.

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> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
> years.
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> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)

What happen if i upgrade my computer then? I"ve to buy another licence?

"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Urban" wrote:
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>> "HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...

>> > My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How do
>> > i
>> > transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work. How
>> > many
>> > computer does 1 home premium licence will support.

>>
>>
>>
>> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
>> years.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)

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> What happen if i upgrade my computer then? I"ve to buy another licence?

If you have purchased a retail copy of Vista - nothing. You can upgrade your
computer as you see fit, as long as you only have the operating system on
one computer at a time.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
> years.

True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.

Jon

Jon Davis schrieb:

> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
>> years.

>
> True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.

But he wrote 'Home Premium' - that's definitely not a licence for, e.
g., server + 5 clients;-)

Roy

"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uZmhB2YDHHA.348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
>> years.

>
> True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.
>
> Jon
>
>

Please read. Whether it is OEM or retail, Home Premium is one license per
computer.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Check out the Maximum PC website for some info.

http://maximumpc.com/

MS keeps changing the EULA.


"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How do i
> transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work. How many
> computer does 1 home premium licence will support.

"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...

> My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How
> do i
> transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work.
> How many
> computer does 1 home premium licence will support.

The retail license permits you to install the copy on one device for
each license you buy

From the EULA

<------------------->
2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
license, you must assign that license to one device (physical hardware
system). That device is the "licensed device." A hardware partition
or blade is considered to be a separate device.
a. Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software
on the licensed device. You may use the software on up to two
processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the
Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not
use the software on any other device.
<-------------------->

As regards moving your copy frm one machine to another

For retail licenses of Windows Vista the following applies from the
End User License Agreement

<-------------------------->
15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may uninstall
the software and install it on another device for your use. You may
not do so to share this license between devices.
<-------------------------->


So yes you may uninstall the software from one machine and move it to
another. There is no restriction on this.
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Mike Brannigan

"Mike Brannigan" wrote:

> The retail license permits you to install the copy on one device for
> each license you buy
>
> From the EULA
>
> <------------------->
> 2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
> license, you must assign that license to one device (physical hardware
> system). That device is the "licensed device." A hardware partition
> or blade is considered to be a separate device.
> a. Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software
> on the licensed device. You may use the software on up to two
> processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the
> Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not
> use the software on any other device.
> <-------------------->
>
> As regards moving your copy frm one machine to another
>
> For retail licenses of Windows Vista the following applies from the
> End User License Agreement
>
> <-------------------------->
> 15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
> a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may uninstall
> the software and install it on another device for your use. You may
> not do so to share this license between devices.
> <-------------------------->
>
>
> So yes you may uninstall the software from one machine and move it to
> another. There is no restriction on this.
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>
> Mike Brannigan

Does uninstall mean include format or repartition my harddrive? I am afriad
that It requres me to register "online" like Genisus that once i varifyed on
the paticular computer and it's set. Can't do anything about it. Or i may
have to get online and do some inconvient things to tell microsoft that i've
to transfer my licnece.

Since from what i know, one of my friend asked me to help him reload windows
on one of his computer. However when i try to varify its windows, i got
denied since it says the copy of windows had already varify on other
machine.... something like that.