Installing Vista on Multiple Computers/Laptops

Pardon my Newbieness, but i have a really important question. I have recently gotten the vista ultimate upgrade and i was hoping to upgrade my desktop and laptop to vista ultimate. However a friend told me that i couldn't do that because it is one key per computer. My question is...what if i installed it on both laptop and desktop anyways? I never new about this because i alway used XP on my desktop and never really thought about it much.

 

It is considered illegal. Microsoft can sue you. Also, when you register your machine, if there is duplicate, one machine might be disabled. I'm not sure whether you can run a copy without registering. But yeah, you shouldn't do it. Whether you can or not, is the question here, and I think you can't. I think if you do it, you might disable one machine, through some code and so on. Then you might have to call Microsoft to enable the machine again. Which they won't do (unless you lie to them and tell them a different story). That's what I heard about Vista, just like XP was designed to be, but as far as I know, that never worked.

But ofcourse there are ways to circumvent things, which is wrong and I won't talk about it here.

Besides, what's so good about Vista? Try Feisty Fawn. It's awsome. Check out Ubuntu - Feisty Fawn. I heard it installs everything right out of the box. Plus Linux is modern enough that you can do what ever you could do on a Windows box.

 

So lets say i upgrade my laptop to vista ultimate; what happens to my window vista premium keys that came with the laptop? I am basically throwing it away?

 

What do you mean? That's a separate key, so that has nothing to do with it.

It's only if you install *one* key on multiple computers you have a problem. (#1: It's illegal, and #2: Vista will go into obsessive paranoia mode)

No you can't. You can't run your Windows games, for example. There are plenty of threads about whether or not Vista is good or bad. Let's not turn this into one.

 

Well you definitely can't use the vista ultimate key on both machine. Just like your friend said.

About the vista premium key, hmm, good question. But yeah, I guess you'll be throwing it away, because you can't install a Vista ultimate and use the vista premium key, it won't work.

You leave the laptop with vista premium, and install the ultimate on the desktop, but I'm not sure whether that's what you want to do.

 

Yeah, but you can run games. That's in a way, is doing what you can do on Windows. ALthough not many interesting games would run on Linux. And don't forget Cedega and Wine. Again, admittedly not many Windows game, but some would.

 

I'm really sorry if this doesn't answer your question but I know that if you want to network Vista you have to get a totally different version.

Also if you just want to install Vista on multiple computers without puchasing a multiple computer liscence as f4ding said, it is illegal.

Also as f4ding said, Vista still does have quite a few bugs in it so check out Kubuntu or maybe a different distributer of Linux. Go on the Linux forum and there's quite a few good ones.