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I want to try out one or two options on a Virtual machine with W8 Pro. There's no problem entering a product key at install time but is there anyway to stop it automatically trying to activate as soon as you have an Internet connection - and how long does it give you before requiring activation.
W7 gave you 30 days (usually) or in rare cases 3 days.
3 Days is fine for what I want to test -- I usually use W8 enterprise which has multiple activations / VL so it's not an issue for that product.
Any W8 PRO users here who can give answers on this one.
This seems a bit of a bo bo by Ms -- surely Ms knows people want to test stuff with a VM -- so why did they 1) enforce a product key at install time (except for W8 enterprise where you can enter it afterwards) and 2) seem to require immediate activation.
(I've no problem entering a product key AFTER installation -- sometimes you just want to test if the installed VM will BOOT and then not do anything else or even if the VM will INSTALL at all).
I'm not trying to "Pirate" anything here - but surely if you are developing or testing something you shouldn't have to keep having to activate a product until you've finalized your configuration. In any case Ms will only allow so many activations in a given period - so obviously they've forgotten about testers / developers / just plain "tinkerers" etc.
They perhaps should create a "developers edition" license which has slightly different rules. I know if I were running a software company I'd create that sort of license since the usefulness of the product is hugely enhanced by 1000's of developers worldwide who create applications and even hardware that o9riginally people never even thought of.
Cheers
jimbo
I want to try out one or two options on a Virtual machine with W8 Pro. There's no problem entering a product key at install time but is there anyway to stop it automatically trying to activate as soon as you have an Internet connection - and how long does it give you before requiring activation.
W7 gave you 30 days (usually) or in rare cases 3 days.
3 Days is fine for what I want to test -- I usually use W8 enterprise which has multiple activations / VL so it's not an issue for that product.
Any W8 PRO users here who can give answers on this one.
This seems a bit of a bo bo by Ms -- surely Ms knows people want to test stuff with a VM -- so why did they 1) enforce a product key at install time (except for W8 enterprise where you can enter it afterwards) and 2) seem to require immediate activation.
(I've no problem entering a product key AFTER installation -- sometimes you just want to test if the installed VM will BOOT and then not do anything else or even if the VM will INSTALL at all).
I'm not trying to "Pirate" anything here - but surely if you are developing or testing something you shouldn't have to keep having to activate a product until you've finalized your configuration. In any case Ms will only allow so many activations in a given period - so obviously they've forgotten about testers / developers / just plain "tinkerers" etc.
They perhaps should create a "developers edition" license which has slightly different rules. I know if I were running a software company I'd create that sort of license since the usefulness of the product is hugely enhanced by 1000's of developers worldwide who create applications and even hardware that o9riginally people never even thought of.
Cheers
jimbo
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