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I have just spent the last 45 minutes reading through MS's licensing pages and still cannot for the life of me figure out how to find out how much it is for volume licensing, for say 8 copies of Windows 7
; if not 7, then 8.
I click on Windows 7
here and it just takes me to some page that really doesn't help me. On the right hand side menu I click on the "Sign in to the
Volume Licensing Service Center" link but that just takes me to some place that appears to be for people that already have licenses; then I click on the link below it but that takes me to some other place I'm not sure if I'm in the right place; then I check out the "Partner Page" link and that just confuses me more.
I also clicked on the "How to Buy" link in the top menu and that wasn't all that helpful either..... I went to the "License Advisor" to get a quote, but that only showed Windows 8 "upgrade" options and nothing on Windows 7.
How can I simply find out how much it is if I want to buy several copies of Windows 7? Does it really need to be this hard!?
Edit: From more reading it seems you can only upgrade to a volume license from an installed copy; so I'm assuming you buy one copy and then install it on each machine and then do the upgrade!? No idea - very confusing!
Microsoft doesn't sell Windows 7 any more ... – DavidPostill – 2014-12-13T11:17:39.600
@DavidPostill Well Windows 8 wasn't exactly easy to find either. – Brett – 2014-12-13T11:19:02.733
This is a spectacular post, thank you! Always remember time IS money, so to spend one on the expense of the other is a net loss. The product stacks at Microsoft is also in constant flux and I personally do not trust their internal balance to be sound on the first place. Do what I do - use their trial software, and re-install them periodically. You loose time, maybe lots of it, but at least you fully control that balance. I post this as facts on economics and nothing else. Once you move to production loss or profit - worry when you cross that bridge. – arch-abit – 2014-12-13T14:12:02.100