Recent content by Kumba

I'm kinda jazzed that in the list here, you can potentially download Windows 3.x still. And they made a Windows 3.2? I'm gonna have to look that one up.

Well, at first, the validator acts like I'm clean, because the trial key was active. So I ran "slmgr -upk" to remove it, then rebooted the VM, and the activation window blocked further access. So I try to validate again from there, and instead, it just takes me to the Vista stuff, letting me...

Gotcha, so that sounds like one way then. Anyone got ideas on the other question? All I'm doing is in this VMware copy I have setup for a little bit (which is the official Win2k8 Std Trial ISO that I downloaded off Microsoft's site), is going into system Properties, selecting to activate...

To the best of my knowledge, the act of tying the license to the hardware is a questionable practice anyways (i.e., it hasn't been tested in courts, and iirc, if it was, it wouldn't hold a lot of mustard). But, a quick search on eBay for kicks reveals lots of broken servers -- stripped (or...

Hmm, definitely keeps options limited, since all my searching thus far hasn't turned up a non-evaluation, non-academic, non-OEM, retail version of a single server license anywhere (without >1 CALs attached). However, I am still perplexed why, when I followed their Activation Wizard in my...

Hmm, interesting tips from everyone. Lets say there's a hypothetical situation where a 5-CAL license pack is found on an auction site for pretty cheap. The description says it's the full retail 5 CAL licenses. I assume this means one just gets a piece of paper that grants ownership rights...

Well, this is interesting. Dug out the Activation feature of this Server 2008 Std trial copy (hiding as a link in system properties), hit the "Buy a new product key online", and I'm taken to a page that lets me buy a Vista product key. So, does this mean Server 2008 will take a Vista product...

I see. I guess what I'm trying to achieve is back in the day when you walked into a store, and could grab a copy of Windows 2000 Pro off the shelf. What you installed was a "clean OS" - no wizards, no gunk, no fisher-price interfaces loading up. In the XP family, the only way to achieve all...

They should be able to tell me that straight off the bat then. When I go "Do you sell 1-user copies of Windows Server 2008?", they should be able to immediately explain to me that they don't. Instead, I got stuck with a guy who needed the question repeated to him twice, then all he did was...

I've already called Microsoft twice on this question, but I must be reaching the dimwits at the phones, because they don't seem to understand the question when I ask what I need to do to buy a 1-user copy of Windows Server 2008 Std. I've easily found single User CALs on several reseller...

I'm Sure you guys get a lot of these questions here. Been scrounging Newegg for the last 3 days on a proper motherboard, but I'm about as indecisive as a quantum qubit here. Building a new rig, and I've got several parts already ordered, and several more in the queue. Here's what I know...