There was some discussion a few weeks ago about whether installing a
Windows upgrade license was OK on Parallels.
The attached note is from Microsoft to the Educause Licensing group.
Hopefully it clarifies this issue. Unless you have Software
Assurance, you must purchase a full product license not an upgrade to
run Windows in a Parallels environment and keep the MacOS, too.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Steve Straub <Steve.Straub_at_MICROSOFT.COM>
> Date: November 14, 2007 9:55:26 AM PST
> To: LICENSING_at_LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [LICENSING] Windows licenses for use on Mac OS X Leopard
> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Software Licensing Issues Constituent Group
> Listserv <LICENSING_at_LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
>
> From our Product List at http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/
> userights/PL.aspx:
> Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Business Upgrades
> Customers who wish to acquire either the Windows XP Professional or
> Windows Vista Business Upgrade license through the Select License
> or Open License programs must first have licensed and installed on
> their desktop a qualifying operating system.
>
> Qualifying OS Rules (Each of these conditions must be met in order
> for the base OS to qualify you for the VL Upgrade.):
>
> The qualifying OS must be installed on the device to which
> the VL Upgrade license is to be assigned.
> Except as provided below, you must remove the qualifying
> Operating System from the device in order to deploy the VL Upgrade
> license.
> Customers who wish to install or run more than one licensed
> OS at one time (including the qualifying OS), may either:
> acquire Software Assurance for their VL Upgrade
> license, or
> purchase full Windows Vista licenses separately.
> We do not offer full OS licenses in Volume Licensing.
> Customers that have active Software Assurance coverage do
> not need to uninstall the qualifying OS and may install and run the
> qualifying OS and Windows Vista at the same time.
>
> So in Summary:
>
> To use an upgrade on your Mac in Parallels or Bootcamp, the system
> must be covered with Software Assurance. If you don't have
> Software assurance, you must purchase full product license via a
> retail outlet as don't sell a full License on VL agreements.
>
> Now as for the Running of Virtual Machines using the Rights to 4
> Virtual Machines as an SA Benefit, this is covered in the Product
> Use Rights PUR located at: http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/
> userights/PUR.aspx under the section on SA (page 71). You can
> install 1 physical instance of the OS, and then run up to 4 virtual
> instances of a Windows OS within that physical instance.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Steve Straub
> Cell: 614.226.7792
> sstraub_at_microsoft.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stark [mailto:mstark_at_UCSD.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:35 PM
> To: LICENSING_at_LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [LICENSING] Windows licenses for use on Mac OS X Leopard
>
> Windows upgrades are for a particular computer's OEM license,
> unless acquired per FTE (enterprise/campus/school).
>
> And a upgrade from Macos 10.4 to 10.5, like under the Apple
> Maintenance Program, still is one OEM license for that one computer.
>
> Software Assurance can be functionally redeployed to another
> piece of replacement hardware. (The exact wording is posted in the
> product list of the month or the product use rights, I forget).
>
> But moving from one computer to another is not how a simple
> upgrade can be deployed.
>
> Software assurance costs 25% or 29% per year of the base license.
> In the case of Windows upgrades S/A get you bitlocker, and 4
> instances of a qualifying OS on the machine being upgraded.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
>
>
>> Could another option without SA be using a second Mac OS to
>> qualify for
>> the upgrade rather than a full Windows OS? For example, if an iMac
>> has
>> OS X Tiger, then receives a new Mac OS X Leopard license (not an
>> upgrade) and Parallels or VMWare, would the original Tiger OS
>> qualify as
>> an underlying OS for the upgrade to Windows XP?
>>
>> Susan
>> Software & Technical Documentation Manager
>> Academic Technology & User Services
>> Western Washington University
>> 360.650.7388
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Stark [mailto:mstark_at_UCSD.EDU]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:31 PM
>> To: LICENSING_at_LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [LICENSING] Windows licenses for use on Mac OS X Leopard
>>
>>
>> A windows upgrade under software assurance (Enterprise Agreement,
>> Campus Agreement, Select or Open via optional Software Assurance) has
>> currently rights to a Vista Enterprise upgrade with the 4 concurrent
>> licenses and all.
>>
>> Macos is a qualifying OS to upgrade, like windows 2000. How you
>> implement the 1 to 4 instances of a qualified Operating System
>> depends
>> on your hardware & virtualization software.
>>
>> And if you upgrade to Vista business with no Software Assurance via
>> select or open, you are upgrading one qualifying OS. In that case you
>> may need additional OEM or Fully packaged product licenses to run
>> multiple instances.
>>
>> So if you are in a campus agreement, you can run windows sessions on
>> your mac hardware, physically or virtually as a Software Assurance
>> Benefit.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> (A Macbook pro makes a very fine intel laptop with a 4.x user
>> experience when upgraded to Vista. That it may have a few disk
>> partitions or virtual hard disk with linux/solaris/windows/Macos
>> seems
>> to not really be the point).
>>
>>
>>> My understanding is that MAC OS does qualify as a valid OS for
>> installing WIN OS upgrade but only if using bootcamp to access the
>> WIN
>> OS. If you use Parallels so you can have both WIN & MAC running
>> at the
>> same time, you must purchase a full OEM license not an upgrade
>> license
>> such as through MS Select, etc.. Please correct me if this is
>> incorrect.
>>> thanks
>>> Marshall Robinson, C.P.M.
>>> Information Technology Buyer
>>> The Evergreen State College
>>> 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW
>>> Olympia, WA 98505
>>> 360-867-5068
>>> 360-867-6660 fax
>>> robinsgm_at_evergreen.edu
>>>
>>>
>>> From: David C Yother [mailto:dyother_at_UAB.EDU]
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:33 PM
>>> To: LICENSING_at_LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: [LICENSING] Windows licenses for use on Mac OS X
>>> Leopard
>>>
>>> You might check out page 85 and 86 of the MS Product List
>>> document on
>> the web -
>> <http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/
>> DocumentSearch.aspx?M
>> ode=3&DocumentTypeId=3>http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/
>> userights
>> /DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=3 . There is a table
>> that
>> details that the Mac OS counts as a valid OS under a Campus Agreement
>> and if you have SA (which you would under a Campus Agreement) you
>> don't
>> have to remove the original OS. Check with your MS rep if you
>> want to
>> validate.
>>>
>>>
>>> David Yother
>>> Director, Instructional Support Services
>>> Manager, IT Procurement
>>> UAB | CEC 204D |205-996-7227
>>>
>>> From: John Sheshene [mailto:sheshenj_at_STJOHNS.EDU]
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:16 PM
>>> To: LICENSING_at_LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
>>> Subject: [LICENSING] Windows licenses for use on Mac OS X Leopard
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> We're trying to determine the most cost effective method of running
>> Windows XP Pro on Intel based Macs with OSX- Leopard and/or
>> parallels.
>>>
>>> Since we have a MS Campus Wide Agreement my understanding is that we
>> need to:
>>> * Acquire a full install (OEM type) Windows license
>>> * If the above license is not for Windows XP Pro then we can
>> use our CWA to upgrade to Windows XP Pro.
>>>
>>> We plan to obtain the OEM type licenses from a "general" computer
>> company on the net since the pricing is lower than a shrinkwrap
>> version
>> from our normal provider.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions on a better approach?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> John H. Sheshene
>>> Manager - Academic Software
>>> St. John's University
>>> 8000 Utopia Pky
>>> Queens, NY 11439
>>> (718) 990-1674
>>>
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