Pirate much, Mike? Penalties for this are HUGE. Mike's IT Consulting & Delicatessen has SOLD Widgets, Inc five computers running copies of Windows 7 licensed on a volume key that is owned by MITC&D.
Widgets, Inc actually has NO downgrade rights, as they don't actually own the license installed on the 5 Win7 machines. They are guilty of pirating those 5 licenses. Widgets, Inc is using 5 inappropriately-licensed copies of Windows 7.
After delivery, Widgets, Inc wants to downgrade those Windows 7 machines to XP Pro.Īssuming that "purchased" means "purchased" and not "leased", and that "volume license key owned by Mike's IT Consulting & Delicatessen" means "MITC&D didn't bother to transfer the entire volume license agreement to Widgets, Inc on delivery of the new computers and has no plans to do so" here's a short rundown of how much trouble both companies are in: MITC&D replaces the OEM license of Win7 with a Volume License Key owned by MITC&D before delivering said computers to Widgets, Inc. Widgets, Inc purchases 5 new Windows 7 Pro computers from Mike's IT Consulting and Delicatessen. ◦Additionally an end user, who is licensed separately through Microsoft Volume Licensing (VL) programs, may provide their VL media and key to their system builder to use to facilitate the downgrade on only their systems.Īgain, you (being the end user) would need to have access to YOUR XP Pro VL media and key to use it when downgrading to XP. ◦The media should come from a prior legally licensed version from the OEM or Retail channels. I thought the website was very helpful to answer this question (see below): No you cant use their media and key to downgrade. What would give you the inclination that you can use someone else's VL Media/Key? Further more, why would a 3rd party company allow you to use their VL media/key? I understand we have the right to downgrade but do we have the right to use a VLK that is not registered to our business. It would be like they bought 100 licenses for one of their customers to install it on their systems but also used the same license key to downgrade our OEM license to an older version. The question is not how to downgrade it's whether a consultant company who images computers for us has the legal right to install VLK media onto our computers that does not belong to us. Chris thanks for responding but still don't think I've made it clear.
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