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Am I the only person that abuses Microsoft's Windows Server evaluation program?

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EyeMWing

Banned
I have a half dozen IA64 evaluation kits, about a dozen i386 copies (One has been opened) and an AMD64 set on the way. I could use the OS for 6 years on those i386 copies alone (i386 evaluations are 180 days, IA64 and AMD64 are 360 days)
 
Oh, and I don't actually USE them. They're merely here as temporary holdovers if I don't want to pay for another WinXP copy (Hasn't happened yet)
 
Originally posted by: beer
Originally posted by: minendo
BAN HIM.
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Doesn't that get old after a while? I mean, what, you've only said it fify thousand times this month?
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Yes, fifty-thousand times.
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Even if you were to use it for the next six years, wouldn't you still have to re-install it each 180 days when it expires? Wouldn't that be PITA?
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Even if you were to use it for the next six years, wouldn't you still have to re-install it each 180 days when it expires? Wouldn't that be PITA?
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Yes. But that's no big deal anyway, I reinstall more often than that anyway.

Oh, and these evaluation kits are full Enterprise version with time limiters, not some gimpy disabled thing that only does half of what the full version does.
 
Originally posted by: beer
Originally posted by: minendo
BAN HIM.
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Doesn't that get old after a while? I mean, what, you've only said it fify thousand times this month?
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Interesting, minendo has 21352 posts in 2 and a half years, id be curious to know where you came up with that number
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I don't think it matters the number of times you reuse a trial license; I'm sure there are dozens of companies that do that for their test machines to save licensing fees.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Hammer
nah, its easier to just get a free full legal copy.
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How do you pull THAT off?
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Actually I got (1) copy of Windows 2003 Small Business Server Premium Edition (NFR) and (1) Copy of Windows 2003 Small Business Server Premium Edition (For Resale) from MS last week.

Also have 5 Free CAL's on the way.


Question: What kind of loser post something like this?
 
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