Volume license key

A Corporate Edition or Enterprise Edition is a software in a design that is aimed at businesses. In general it offers considerable scope to manage the computers and databases, such as powerful interfaces for SNMP and LDAP. Frequently in their development the interaction with company typically closed source is especially dedicated great attention. With an open source these designs are connected with a service contract, the guaranteed short-term technical assistance in an emergency.

In a closed-source license agreement is added, which greatly differs from such a consumer. In general, the commercial licensee is the manufacturer known by name. He then dispensed mostly on protective measures such as product activations, because he can take the easy licensee liable if this brings the software in circulation. Licenses for desktops from companies are often volume licenses, which require certain minimum quantities.

Microsoft Windows XP Corporate Edition

To prevent the use of a single license on multiple computers, Microsoft introduced with Windows XP, a so-called Windows Product Activation (WPA ). A silent installation, as it is common in large enterprises is little sense to her because to enter an administrator on each computer by hand an unused license key and would have to carry the activation. This Windows XP was not just rejected by the large customers due to an intolerable burden, it was also a XP Corporate Edition, XP Professional without a WPA.

Even before the launch of Windows XP did such execution as well as a matching license keys in circulation and ran the manufacturer's strategy. Microsoft later responded with the so-called Windows Genuine Advantage ( WGA), a method for the detection of known compromised license keys during operation. However, due to a very active cracking scene Windows XP Professional as a non- licensed copy still available. The enormous capacity for replication of the corresponding scene and automated Product Key Finder - and - exchange programs seem WGA shut out for the most part. As ironic answer is often a modification of Windows XP Pirated Edition, which at startup instead of a Windows flag shows the skull from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Microsoft Office XP and Visio 2002 Corporate Edition

Even with Microsoft's Office suite of applications in Office XP and Visio 2002 there is a Corporate Edition that does not include the compulsion to otherwise mandatory product activation.

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