Originally posted by EternalOne:
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No problem ... volume licencing products do not require this, so it would never come up.
In fact if you have 20+ machines, you should look at volume licencing for when Longhorn comes out ... buy it with Software Assurance and you can spread the costs and get cheaper updated OS's when they come out. You can go volume, Open business, with just 5 licences.



Yeah, that's how we did things at Symantec. One piece of printed paper that showed we owned "X" number of licenses. But these machines are purchased from Dell, and they didn't give us that option.

Most of my dev machines from MSDN copies of software, so no activation there. I just can't imagine what non-tech companies will do when something like this comes up. (I guess buy time from the Geek Squad.)

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IIRC with volume you have to purchase with OS, so it wouldn't be an option at POS. I've never really dabbled much in volume, I usually refer those sales out to a software place that used to give me a nice discount on my purchases.

Great thing about all the MSDN stuff too, you don't even have to enter serial numbers, which can be a real pain at times.

My consultancy is a microsoft partner, so we never have to worry about software costs here ... it's all Microsoft and only costs us about $450 CDN per year for it too. I just wish that Symantec would dish out freebies like that, then I'd never have to worry about AntiVirus, Spam, and so forth on my server.

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