How Many Licences Does Windows 7 Ultimate Come With?
I have installed the Windows 7 RC, and am currently debating whether to keep going with it or to go back to Vista.
What’s going to sway me is the Windows 7 Ultimate pack. It’s a bit pricey for one user, but if shared over several users it’s worth in my opinion.
I’ve done my best to find this out, to no avail, and was wondering if one of you lovely people knew the answer. How many people can install Windows 7 on a single “Ultimate” Product Key?
One licence per installed Computer is required. So sharing with several computers is not allowed, but using the copy with several users on one machine is no problem at all. But I don’t think that’s what you had in mind.
You get one computer activated per key regardless of version.
The Ultimate version has features that are unnecessary for most consumers, and most are perfectly fine this round with Home Premium, or perhaps Professional.
It’s very unlikely you need things in Ultimate like BitLocker or the ability to use lanugage packs. Ultimate is feature-wise the same thing as the high end Enterprise business edition, but just a way for consumers to get the extra features if they desperately want them.
Microsoft is supposedly going to have family packs eventually available where you’d get 3 Home Premium activations (i.e., use for 3 computers) likely somewhere in the $150 ballpark.
Step one would be to confirm that you really really truly want and need the couple pricey extra features in Ultimate — you almost certainly don’t. They’re mainly useful for some business environments where there might, for example, be a laptop shared by multiple people speaking multiple languages and regularly traveling internationally where the BitLocker security would be useful as well.
This should be answered by Microsoft. Usually the user agreement will have this info.
generally speaking, unless stated otherwise, you get one license per key