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Legal Question: If I use my own retail RTM Product Key, can I use someone else's (newer) media to clean install my OS?

Bloqueada Legal Question: If I use my own retail RTM Product Key, can I use someone else's (newer) media to clean install my OS?

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  • martes, 15 de mayo de 2012 21:23
     
     
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    I purchased Vista Ultimate right after it came out.

    Everyone knows what a nightmare pre-SP1 Vista was.

    I'd like to install an SP2-integrated version right off the bat.

    Can I use someone else's media (neighbour's, colleague's, or Igor in Ukraine) to install as long as I use my own product key?

    I don't want to know if it's technically possible.  I want to know if we are violating the TOS or EULA by doing so.  It's hard doing things by the book.

    TIA,

    Waqqas

       

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    • viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012 2:34
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      You may use a genuine "Full Version" Windows Vista product key with a genuine generic (non-branded) Windows Vista DVD.  However, you may have to "activate by phone".

      Carey Frisch

         
      • viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012 14:03
         
         
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        You may use a genuine "Full Version" Windows Vista product key with a genuine generic (non-branded) Windows Vista DVD.  However, you may have to "activate by phone".

        Carey Frisch

        Thanks, Carey.

        I have been receiving conflicting answers (all directly from Microsoft).

        For my reference, can you provide me with a link to the TOS etc that support what you are telling me?

        Other reps have told me that as long as my key is genuine and that the media type matches/accepts my key type, there should not be an issue (nor could they find anything in the EULA or TOS that further restricted what I was allowed to use).

        Thanks in advance!

           
        • viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012 17:36
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          There is no EULA or TOS that states you can use different installation media.

          Carey Frisch

             
          • viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012 21:07
             
             
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            There is no EULA or TOS that states you can use different installation media.

            Carey Frisch

            But is there one saying I can't?  If so, could you provide a reference?

            Thanks!

               
            • viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012 21:16
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              No.  The important thing is the license and not the media.  We assume you would use "genuine" Microsoft media.

              Carey Frisch


                 
              • sábado, 19 de mayo de 2012 0:15
                 
                 
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                No.  The important thing is the license and not the media.  We assume you would use "genuine" Microsoft media.

                Carey Frisch


                Thanks, Carey, for taking the time to answer my questions.

                   
                • martes, 22 de mayo de 2012 14:35
                   
                   
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                  No.  The important thing is the license and not the media.  We assume you would use "genuine" Microsoft media.

                  Carey Frisch


                  Woops, before we close this off.  Even though this applies to Windows 7 (and not Windows Vista) are Digital River publicly-downloadable ISO's considered genuine Microsoft media?  After all, those are the ones that Microsoft asks you to download if you purchase a "Download Only" copy of Windows.  Word on the Internet is that they are perfectly legal to download.

                  Thanks!

                     
                  • miércoles, 23 de mayo de 2012 3:44
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                    Only if you intially purchase the software legally.  Third-party opinions are not legal opinions.

                    Carey Frisch