Windows Vista Licence worries

[Geoff]

Schools Agreement gets you Vista Enterprise and it's attached EULA. The schools agreement does allow you to downgrade to XP though.

 

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/e/95eae8a2-13fe-4a93-a5cd-87eced34f247/SA3ProgramGuide.doc

[john]

Vista Pricing (up to date as of ~2 weeks ago), from a source I have that I cannot disclose as it would get both of us in trouble, its for the Full Packaged stuff not OEM, Select, Open etc so I know we pay less etc but you get a drift.

 

Windows Vista Business - Full Product -£157, Upgrade - £104

Windows Vista Enterprise - Only avalable to Volume Licence Customers

Windows Vista Home Premium - Full product - £125, Upgrade - £83

Windows Vista Home Basic - Full Product - £104, Upgrade - £52

Windows Vista Ultimate - Full Product - £210, Upgrade - £136

 

Edit - forgot to put with them, that they are NOT confirmed launch prices or anything like that as far as I know, they are best figures that my contact had from what he said was a reliable source, so please don't start making budgetary decisions based on these prices as they are not the offical final prices, but looking at them they would seem sensible areas to be in

[Geoff]

I guess Enterprise is the one to aim for then? How does Enterprises EULA compare to the others considering the 'restrictions' that have been discussed.

[john]

Business or Enterprise Geoff, I suspect that you will manage with Business as thats the more direct replacement for XP Pro as far as I can tell, and I suspect thats the one you will get with any Software Assurance rights you have. The enterprise is aimed more at very very large deployment bases, rather than your 300/400 workstations. I think the figure of 300+ really before you look at enterprise edition but as I have not seeen a 110% confirmation of what you get in each one and what the vista equivalents are yet (I have seen the MS Office ones) then I am a little unsure myself.

[kingswood]

Yeah- this is for Joe User who lives in normality:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Windows-Vista-Ultimate-DVD/dp/B000HCTYTE/sr=1-2/qid=1162368275/ref=sr_1_2/202-9997587-9725465?ie=UTF8&s=software

 

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