Windows Keys

[Yosefalofagus]

What kind of key should I get that would be acceptable for selling built PC's? I know Microsoft sells their keys for $130 and some other shops sell them for $25 bucks. What should I trust and what would get me a legit key the cheapest?

[Electronics Wizardy]

I wouldn't sell a pc without a offical key, that might come back to bite you if its not from authorized reseller. 

 

If your selling enough keys, you can get volume pricing from microsoft its self.

[Delicieuxz]

Just don't buy the Home edition. It will prevent you from being able to change certain settings regarding privacy and data-harvesting. Personally, I only use either Enterprise or, preferably, LTSC.

[Electronics Wizardy]

15 minutes ago, Delicieuxz said:

Just don't buy the Home edition. It will prevent you from being able to change certain settings regarding privacy and data-harvesting. Personally, I only use either Enterprise or, preferably, LTSC.

how selling pc, home is more than plenty. Most users don't care about any of that, and most all gaming pcs and normal laptops are sold with win 10 home and most people don't need the extra features.

[Delicieuxz]

14 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how selling pc, home is more than plenty. Most users don't care about any of that, and most all gaming pcs and normal laptops are sold with win 10 home and most people don't need the extra features.

They might not care about it now, but maybe in 2+ years they'll have learned more about how to use their PC and want to change a setting that Home doesn't allow to be changed. People someone post in forums asking for help with disabling or managing Windows Update, but then they find-out that they can't use the Group Policy editor because it's not included with Home. There's no point in buying Home as it just locks someone out of possibilities in the future.

[Yosefalofagus]

42 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

I wouldn't sell a pc without a offical key, that might come back to bite you if its not from authorized reseller. 

 

If your selling enough keys, you can get volume pricing from microsoft its self.

So when you say official key, do you mean the 100 dollar plus one that Microsoft themselves sell?

[homeap5]

2 hours ago, Yosefalofagus said:

So when you say official key, do you mean the 100 dollar plus one that Microsoft themselves sell?

If you're not end user of computer but build it for others, install unactivated Windows. Using unactivated Windows is against policy, but you will not use it - and next user can enter his own key to activate. Or even change system to some Linux.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 hours ago, Yosefalofagus said:

So when you say official key, do you mean the 100 dollar plus one that Microsoft themselves sell?

But it from a authorized reseller, and I don't know a authorized that sells windows keys for much under a hunded bucks. Or setup a volume pricing deal if your moving lots of systems.

 

7 hours ago, Delicieuxz said:

They might not care about it now, but maybe in 2+ years they'll have learned more about how to use their PC and want to change a setting that Home doesn't allow to be changed. People someone post in forums asking for help with disabling or managing Windows Update, but then they find-out that they can't use the Group Policy editor because it's not included with Home. There's no point in buying Home as it just locks someone out of possibilities in the future.

most users will never need to touch those things. And if they do, they can always upgrade to pro later on. Very few people will ever touch group policy or simmilar in windows.