volume licensee

[rookie1010]

Hello,

what is a volume licensee?

Microsoft to Alter Vista for EU, Korea
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
October 13, 2006, 12:23 PM

Microsoft issued a statement this morning saying it is going ahead with plans to release Windows Vista to volume licensees worldwide on November 30, as previously scheduled. There will be no further delays, even in Europe and Korea where competitors have recently raised complaints, but Microsoft will be making changes to Vista.

 

[compuwiz1]

Volume licensees would be large companies, who deploy an upgrade to many, many computers at rollout.
An example would be a company that has 1000 individual computer users. That would be a volume licensee.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

i guess a volume licensee would be an OEM?

 

[Czar]

no
volume licenses work that you have for example 200 lisences behind one serial number, and you can keep all your lisences and keys neatly on microsofts volume licensing page

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

does not one serial number mean one key?

i guess this is opposed to OEM deals, where each MS windows would have a unique serial number?