Giles,
If he is dual booting the machine with Win 7 and Linux and running a VM in
Linux running Win 7; that vm needs a license because his license is already
being used for one of the dual boot sections on his main machine.
Gerry
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Giles Coochey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28/03/2012 22:50, richard wrote:
>
>> Thanks, I think that says yes if on the same machine. That does not
>> qualify for an award for plain English
>>
>
> To be certain you should read that page before the "I agree" bit when you
> install. The license terms do change from time to time, but yes - my
> understanding is that if you have a retail or OEM license for a system you
> are licensed to run it in the virtual environment on that system.
> Microsoft have assisted me re-activate retail Windows versions (not OEM)
> on completely different hardware (after a motherboard failure) over the
> telephone. Not always the ogre they're purported to be :-)
>
>
>
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