tankman1989
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Ok, I've mentioned this a few times before in a round about way and never got much of a response on it. I used to work for Dell doing large corporate/gov installs ranging from 200-2,000 PC's at a time. Every time we would receive all the PC's packaged as they would be to a retail customer, OS & Office ready to go with legit OEM keys (not VL's at this point). We would have to image each machine and then do a custom setup with a unique computer name, network credentials, certs etc. The image that is installed on all machines use the same volume license (VL) key one every machine - thus leaving the sticker COA on the machine not used yet a legit key (and paid for by the company I suspect). At one job site I took about 15 XP Pro keys from the PC's I installed and later installed them as a virtual machines which I would turn on/boot a couple times a month to see if it was still working. I could do updates and the WGA checked out fine.
So, I'm wondering if anyone here has noticed this? I never tried the Office but I suspect it would work the same as the COA's that came with the computer were the same as the OS COA.
Here is my angle on this. It seems that these are wasted OS licenses that out school's are paying for yet get no use of. I would think that they might be willing to work some kind of deal to a vendor to legitimately resell these, but I am concerned about the OEM requirements (OS is "tied" to the hardware). So can anyone think of a work around for this? Could the school/corp sell a cable with each license for like $2 each (this actually meets OEM hardware purchase requirements), but IDK if it has to be a cable from the original machine for it to be "by the book".
I would think this could produce some nice additional income by pricing 1/2 between the China MSDN/TechNet scammers and retailers like Newegg. I would think an OEM of Win 7 bus could easily fetch $100 if it was from a legit company that would truly follow some good business practices/ethics like not selling the same key more than once.
So, what do ya'll think about this?
So, I'm wondering if anyone here has noticed this? I never tried the Office but I suspect it would work the same as the COA's that came with the computer were the same as the OS COA.
Here is my angle on this. It seems that these are wasted OS licenses that out school's are paying for yet get no use of. I would think that they might be willing to work some kind of deal to a vendor to legitimately resell these, but I am concerned about the OEM requirements (OS is "tied" to the hardware). So can anyone think of a work around for this? Could the school/corp sell a cable with each license for like $2 each (this actually meets OEM hardware purchase requirements), but IDK if it has to be a cable from the original machine for it to be "by the book".
I would think this could produce some nice additional income by pricing 1/2 between the China MSDN/TechNet scammers and retailers like Newegg. I would think an OEM of Win 7 bus could easily fetch $100 if it was from a legit company that would truly follow some good business practices/ethics like not selling the same key more than once.
So, what do ya'll think about this?