Can I Share?

[MACGYVR]

Guys I am a poor fellow and i have a desire for pcs i have built them as well! i want to get windows for two new pcs i have and i want to know if i can share one product key with 2 pcs.

 

i will be keeping them both for myself and not selling them. they are mine...  

 

BEFORE you start asking why don't you have one that can do what two can, i will tell you it is so others can come hangout and play with me at my house!

 

i want windows 8.1 because i love it so dont recommend anything free or another program. i tried getting student versoin (as i am a student) and i never got a response.

 

ready set go!

[UnknownEngineer]

Nope, only one PC can use the licence at a time. You will need two licenses if you have 2 computers.

 

That doesn't mean you can't install 8.1 on both PC's though.....

 

EDIT: forgot to mention one thing, there are licences that work for multiple PC's. But those are intended for business use, I am rather certain that they are a bunch more expensive. If the target audience is either schools or businesses... You aren't going to get one for personal use.

[MACGYVR]

Nope, only one PC can use the licence at a time. You will need two licenses if you have 2 computers.

 

That doesn't mean you can't install 8.1 on both PC's though.....

 

EDIT: forgot to mention one thing, there are licences that work for multiple PC's. But those are intended for business use, I am rather certain that they are a bunch more expensive. If the target audience is either schools or businesses... You aren't going to get one for personal use.

So i AM going to need to buy two copies (hard copies are cheaper) for my two separate computers... maaaaaaaaaaaaan, oh well thank you! 

also what can i do with the disk after i have installed it is there any reason to keep it?

[UnknownEngineer]

So i AM going to need to buy two copies (hard copies are cheaper) for my two separate computers... maaaaaaaaaaaaan, oh well thank you! 

also what can i do with the disk after i have installed it is there any reason to keep it?

They are going to be useful at some point, if you reinstall, just keep them, you can also use them to restore an installation IIRC.

[MACGYVR]

Ok thanks

[Prince32780]

sure.

 

you can extend the trial version to 90 days, and as long as you have everything backed up on a seperate drive, like games, music, videos etc

you only have to reinstall 4 times a year!!!

 

it's sort of legal?

[UnknownEngineer]

sure.

 

you can extend the trial version to 90 days, and as long as you have everything backed up on a seperate drive, like games, music, videos etc

you only have to reinstall 4 times a year!!!

 

it's sort of legal?

Yeah, having to reinstall 4 times a year will be a bit of a pain, he might as well be cracking the OS to avoid that, which certainly is illegal. (But we can't recommend cracking an OS here because CoC)