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New Volume Activation Testing for Windows Vista and Longhorn Server | |
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| Time: 12:23 EST/17:23 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Volume Activation (VA2) is new for Vista and Longhorn. Volume licensed customers are now required to activate all systems. There are two ways for customers to do this:
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:28:29 PM |
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Ok, now for the obvious. I can see "Microsoft Server XXXX Key Activation Edition" coming. Only $50 per user/client.
This is not going to go over well. TL |
| #2 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:39:53 PM |
| While activation is a pain in the arse for reinstalls, this seems like a practical method to prevent the easy piracy and abuse of volume licenses. Only time will tell if it works well or not. |
| #3 By 52115 (66.181.69.250) at Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:54:07 PM |
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As I work for a company that deals with Volume licensing exclusively, as #1 said, this is not going to go over well.
I can see it now, you purchase the license, have to go here, have to activate it here, then install and activate it. But the vendor hasn't updated MS yet, so it doesn't show your agreement, then the install reports your install isn't legit and knocks you out.. GREAT.. Nice especially if you have to reinstall to get a critical server back up, etc. |
| #4 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at Tuesday, September 12, 2006 02:48:48 PM |
| As long as there is an automated way to activate (without user interaction)--which it seems there is--then fine by me. I always appreciated the fact that the volume licenses didn't require activation in the past, though. :( It's unfortunate for those that didn't abuse the "honor system" licensing, but then again, I know of entire companies that have one license of Office and installed it on all their machines. Who's to blame? |
