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It's not legal until he bought the pro licenses. If he went ahead and put pro on over the core before buying the upgrade its would have been illegal.
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It's not legal until he bought the pro licenses. If he went ahead and put pro on over the core before buying the upgrade its would have been illegal.
Was able to take a Dell copy of Windows 8, make an uefi bootable usb key, install onto my Dell, and also onto some acers in my office. It used the embedded keys each time, gave me 8 pro where appropriate, and 8 standard when appropriate. No hassles, activated immediately, no calls to robo activation at Microsoft. Good times.
No, pcs are shipped with the purchased version of the OS. Are you saying there is no W8 Pro embedded key available?
We are not talking about if it works or not, we are talking about legality.
It's not legal until he bought the pro licenses. If he went ahead and put pro on over the core before buying the upgrade its would have been illegal.
Was able to take a Dell copy of Windows 8, make an uefi bootable usb key, install onto my Dell, and also onto some acers in my office. It used the embedded keys each time, gave me 8 pro where appropriate, and 8 standard when appropriate. No hassles, activated immediately, no calls to robo activation at Microsoft. Good times.
Hi there
Problem with that solution is that if you are in the know and have access to cheap manufacturing it's incredibly easy to Pirate -- cloning hardware at very large volumes is extremely cheap and I'm sure if you just take a walk down certain streets in Shanghai as a westerner with a PC in your hand you'll be offered an amazing amount of hardware / software for some really cheap prices within seconds -- of course they won't guarantee the "provenance" of the kit they sell you. It'll work and be really cheap though. !!
I think Ms might regret this approach in the end -- hardware based solutions are usually cracked fairly easily and quickly -- just look how quickly regional encoding / CSS on DVD's was cracked, same thing with Bank cards and Blue Ray DVD's.
Without some sort of a complex dynamic software encryption algorithm too a pure hardware solution won't work --too easily pirated.
You really need to have a combination of BOTH hardware and software to be reasonably "Pirate Proof".
(I'm an Engineer -- I KNOW that this is easy to do- cracking the hardware).
Cheers
jimbo
Was able to take a Dell copy of Windows 8, make an uefi bootable usb key, install onto my Dell, and also onto some acers in my office. It used the embedded keys each time, gave me 8 pro where appropriate, and 8 standard when appropriate. No hassles, activated immediately, no calls to robo activation at Microsoft. Good times.
Hi there
Problem with that solution is that if you are in the know and have access to cheap manufacturing it's incredibly easy to Pirate -- cloning hardware at very large volumes is extremely cheap and I'm sure if you just take a walk down certain streets in Shanghai as a westerner with a PC in your hand you'll be offered an amazing amount of hardware / software for some really cheap prices within seconds -- of course they won't guarantee the "provenance" of the kit they sell you. It'll work and be really cheap though. !!
I think Ms might regret this approach in the end -- hardware based solutions are usually cracked fairly easily and quickly -- just look how quickly regional encoding / CSS on DVD's was cracked, same thing with Bank cards and Blue Ray DVD's.
Without some sort of a complex dynamic software encryption algorithm too a pure hardware solution won't work --too easily pirated.
You really need to have a combination of BOTH hardware and software to be reasonably "Pirate Proof".
(I'm an Engineer -- I KNOW that this is easy to do- cracking the hardware).
Cheers
jimbo
Sorry not legal to put pro on standard machine unless you bought/upgrade pro for that machine. Apples with apples.
Sorry not legal to put pro on standard machine unless you bought/upgrade pro for that machine. Apples with apples.
So if the Dell DVD is W8 pro, you can only use it on the Acers if the Acers came with W8 pro. If the Acers came with W8 standard, you need to upgrade the Acers licences to Pro first before using your Dell DVD for the Acers.
The only way to get 8 Pro on my laptop is to install core and then use the add features option to enter the Pro key.