Steven W. Erbach
serbach at new.rr.com
Fri Sep 10 08:52:37 CDT 2004
Rocky, >> What happens after two years? Can you install on another machine? Are your unused licenses still good? << I haven't read the ENTIRE EULA. I do know, however, that after two years I'll have to cough up the ready for a regularly priced MSDN Universal subscription. As far as licenses, each of the products that require those 25-digit serial numbers come with a generic number that you get once you subscribe (it's available on the MSDN web site for subscribers to the Empower program). I've installed Windows XP Pro on four machines out of the allowable five. Every product can be used on five workstations. For example, SQL Server can have up to five users. "Unused licenses?" Again, the serial number for each installation of, say, Microsoft Office is the same. I don't know what happens at the end of two years. I suspect it's more-or-less the honor system. When I signed up it seemed to me that the Empower people hadn't really gotten their act together yet. I actually received a letter saying that my subscription was ended just a week after it started. I also got a nice apology letter, but it showed me that they weren't geared up for it too well. Steve Erbach