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I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have to
purchase 2 separate Ultimates? I was told that Home Basic will allow you to
run more than one computer at a location is that true?

Any question about your user rights with Vista can be easily and
definitively answered by reading the EULA.TXT file created on your system
during setup.

Normally, it's one machine, running one instance of the Product Key install,
at any one time.
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"sq" <> wrote in message
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> I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have
> to
> purchase 2 separate Ultimates? I was told that Home Basic will allow you
> to
> run more than one computer at a location is that true?

"sq" <> wrote in message
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>I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have
>to
> purchase 2 separate Ultimates? I was told that Home Basic will allow you
> to
> run more than one computer at a location is that true?


One license per machine is the general rule and always has been..

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sq <> wrote:

>I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have to
>purchase 2 separate Ultimates?

Yup.

>I was told that Home Basic will allow you to
>run more than one computer at a location is that true?

Nope.

MS operating systems have always been licensed one to a machine. If
you have two machines, you need two licenses.

I think people get the OS license confused with the MS Office license.
Office allows you to install on one desktop and one laptop machine.

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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:21:01 -0700, sq wrote:

> I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really
> have to purchase 2 separate Ultimates? I was told that Home Basic will
> allow you to run more than one computer at a location is that true?

Actually no, you don't HAVE to "purchase 2 separate Ultimates" you could
always run Linux on the second computer. For free.

ray wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:21:01 -0700, sq wrote:
>
>> I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really
>> have to purchase 2 separate Ultimates? I was told that Home Basic will
>> allow you to run more than one computer at a location is that true?
>
> Actually no, you don't HAVE to "purchase 2 separate Ultimates" you could
> always run Linux on the second computer. For free.

And I would recommend Ubuntu. Get it at http://www.ubuntu.com/

Alias

"Alias" <> wrote in message
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> ray wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:21:01 -0700, sq wrote:
>>
>>> I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really
>>> have to purchase 2 separate Ultimates? I was told that Home Basic will
>>> allow you to run more than one computer at a location is that true?
>>
>> Actually no, you don't HAVE to "purchase 2 separate Ultimates" you could
>> always run Linux on the second computer. For free.
>
> And I would recommend Ubuntu. Get it at http://www.ubuntu.com/
>
> Alias

He doesn't need Ubuntu. He already has Vista Ultimate and doesn't need that
piece of crap OS TOY called Ubuntu. Ubuntu will just frustrate him. If he
decides to try Ubuntu, after a day or so he will figure out what garbage it
is and wipe it from his computer. Remember Ubuntu is FREE and nobody wants
it. That should tell you what an inferior product Ubuntu really is. Ubuntu
is for geeks who can't get laid and have nothing better to do with their
time.

"sq" <> wrote in message
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>I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have
>to
> purchase 2 separate Ultimates?

If you want to run Vista Ultimate on two separate machines, yes.

> I was told that Home Basic will allow you to
> run more than one computer at a location is that true?

No, it isn't true, if you mean run one licensed copy of the OS on two
separate systems.

Only the first will activate if you install using the same license key.
This is as it's always been since activation was implemented.

The only context in which MS has ever allowed multiple installs using the
same key is with Volume License versions. In that context, you purchase
the Volume License, which starts at five licenses, and get the key and one
CD.

HTH
-pk

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:21:01 -0700, sq <>
wrote:

> I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have to
> purchase 2 separate Ultimates?


Yes, if you want to run Vista Ultimate on both computers.

By the way, are you sure that your laptop can even run Vista? Are
Vista drivers available for all its hardware?


> I was told that Home Basic will allow you to
> run more than one computer at a location is that true?


No it's not true. It's the same for all versions of Vista, just as it
was for all versions of Windows since at least 3.1--it's one copy (or
one license) for each computer.

There's nothing new here. This is exactly the same rule that's been in
effect on every version of Windows starting with Windows 3.1. The only
thing new, starting with XP, is that there's now an enforcement
mechanism.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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And the Office Home and Student editions permits three concurrent
activations.

"Tim Slattery" <> wrote in message
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> sq <> wrote:
>
>>I have Vista Ultimate and have a laptop as well as a PC. Do I really have
>>to
>>purchase 2 separate Ultimates?
>
> Yup.
>
>>I was told that Home Basic will allow you to
>>run more than one computer at a location is that true?
>
> Nope.
>
> MS operating systems have always been licensed one to a machine. If
> you have two machines, you need two licenses.
>
> I think people get the OS license confused with the MS Office license.
> Office allows you to install on one desktop and one laptop machine.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
>
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt