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Old July 5th 18, 09:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Buying Windows 7

Ed Cryer wrote:
I'm fed up with Windows 10 on a machine I bought.
I want Win7! I want Win7!

This site offers Win7 Pro for 13.99 GBP.
https://goo.gl/rBddg4

Has anybody bought this? Or does anyone know a better place?

Ed


So that outfit just sends you a key ?

Can you chop up an MSDN Subscription and make
license keys that cheaply ? That's what we'd
want to know. There has to be some lower limit
where they stop making money.

The license keys might be "valid", but the usage
of the keys in this way might violate the terms
of usage. It's just hard to police.

And since there's hardly any web-based means
of vetting keys, you can't even enter the key
you buy, and have it tell you "MSDN Key"
or the like. No way to tell the parentage.

The key likely isn't a VLK (Volume License Key).

And I don't know of a way to make license keys,
other than MSDN Subscription. It's the most
credible mechanism I've heard of. If a
corporation receives a Dell at shipping and receiving,
there's no license they can recycle there. It's
not like these somehow derive from installing
corporate images on bulk-purchase PCs.

And you know these license keys never started
life in boxed software. As the proprietor would
lose their shirt if doing it that way. They'd be
selling well below their cost.

Paul
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