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Posted By: Anonymous For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 1st Sep 2010 9:35am
In the original retail packaging. Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit version. With sevice pack 1.
£50, or offers, obviously.
Posted By: ninja573 Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 4th Sep 2010 6:27pm
alright, you can download this on the net for free m8!
Posted By: Tony_1985 Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 4th Sep 2010 7:49pm
im sure you can, but this is the real genuine deal. Not the fake rubbish you can find on the net
Posted By: _Ste_ Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 4th Sep 2010 8:36pm
Bargain that!
Posted By: ninja573 Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 5th Sep 2010 7:41am
isee ok
Posted By: ninja573 Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 5th Sep 2010 7:44am
ive downloaded a few os and they work fine .you still got a good deal there thou lol.
Posted By: TheDr Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 6th Sep 2010 11:15am
Not a bad price for a genuine version.

We used to sell the COA keys (genuine from machines we had stripped down) for XP on eBay for a tenner, Microsoft went nuts smile
Posted By: bushnut Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 6th Sep 2010 5:38pm
...possibly because selling them is illegal?!?!
Posted By: TheDr Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 7th Sep 2010 2:46am
Originally Posted by bushnut
...possibly because selling them is illegal?!?!


Hello and welcome, first post I see, you're wrong, but thank you for butting in anyway.

There are a few different types of key, the Full version, which we can, and do, sell, and the OEM one, which is licenced from Microsoft by the PC manufacturer, and so can only be sold with the machine, selling it in any other way is in breach of the Microsoft terms of licence.

We were selling the plastic bases from the laptops we were breaking down, they still had the COA keys on them and it was this that Microsoft objected to, they either wanted them removing or for a greater amount of the original laptop to be included in any sale where they might be.

Welcome to the machine, sit back, relax, enjoy. popcorn
Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 7th Sep 2010 9:00am
I never have understood why the legal systems have allowed software to be strictly licensed, IMHO if you buy something, if the provider is not prepared to buy it back off you, you should be allowed to sell it on.

Its like buying a car and being told you are not allowed to re-sell it and not allowed to break it down and sell the parts.
Posted By: bushnut Re: For Sale! Windows Vista Home Premium - 7th Sep 2010 12:17pm
Originally Posted by TheDr
Originally Posted by bushnut
...possibly because selling them is illegal?!?!


Hello and welcome, first post I see, you're wrong, but thank you for butting in anyway.

There are a few different types of key, the Full version, which we can, and do, sell, and the OEM one, which is licenced from Microsoft by the PC manufacturer, and so can only be sold with the machine, selling it in any other way is in breach of the Microsoft terms of licence.

We were selling the plastic bases from the laptops we were breaking down, they still had the COA keys on them and it was this that Microsoft objected to, they either wanted them removing or for a greater amount of the original laptop to be included in any sale where they might be.

Welcome to the machine, sit back, relax, enjoy. popcorn


Contrary to your initial opinion, I have quite an extensive knowledge of this subject, for reasons I am not going to disclose here, and can tell you that the COA dies with the machine, hence why Microsoft will have taken issue with you selling them for £10 on eBay! The issue is also much more complicated than "full licence" or "oem", as you seem to think.

I do not feel that this is the appropriate forum to discuss this though, as this is a 'for sale' item, and a genuine one at that. I will therefore not be discussing this issue further on this forum.
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