shaitan607

Yeah, the question was about vista, I wasn't asking for vista. I'm not ignoring any replies and so far the conversation has been pretty civil up until you started being pretty rude. I know that with XP people were allowed to legally download hacked up copies of Windows as long as they weren't stealing keys, so I figured that this was an ok topic. I guess though that since the EULA for vlite says pretty clear that I can't use it for a professional use then that answers the question.

Sorry, I wasn't asking for Vista nor was I trying to be funny.

Yeah, like you said, my best bet is to call Microsoft and find out from them what their stance is. I'll make sure to post here what I get in writing from them.

Personally i see no problem then, select al the compatibility options to be safe .While my VMWare is finishing ill have a look at the EULA too n try abit of google Excellent, thanks a lot for answering quickly too!

Oh, def not selling the vlited disk. We would still be selling the original license key and disk, but we would also include a seperate DVD with the slipstream install. We aren't trying to pass this off as our own install, nothing would be changed except for what would be removed. no, no repair jobs. This is straight from the factory to the customer. We deal in Military contracts and so we need to be able to adjust things on an individual basis. Yeah, I've tried reading the EULA and all the legalize scared the crap out of me. I'll give it another shot and see what we can do about talking to IP lawyers to get other feedback then.

Customers PC's?? sorry i dont think you can, if you find information saying otherwsie then please let me know preferably a qoute and references. I wouldn't directly asked microsoft as they dont like users using vlite, instead i would read the EULA to make sure you can/cant, your company could seriously be in trouble if you did distribute them when you wasnt suposed to. Once Vista SP1 preintegrated disks start coming out, get a copy of that (legally ofcourse) and use that instead. Better safe than sorry. -Lego Yeah, previously all we've done is create floppies to create auto-installs, but creating a simple DVD would be less of a hassle and cheaper. What we would like to do is have a DVD with their license key already setup along with everything removed so performance won't be hindered. I think I'll have to call up MS and see what they suggest for this situation.

Well, these would be going out to customers. Since the computers are highly specialized and only used for one purpose; removing everything but what we use is a high priority. What my question really boils down to is that I don't quite understand the EULA for Windows and I am not sure if us including a slipstream DVD of a vista install (plus the original) is O.K.

Locked because it's a bad topic or locked because it's been gone over so many times? I'm not trying to pirate anything here, the company I work for requires minimal installs and I'm just doing research into what we can do once XP is no longer sold and we have to start using vista.

I was wondering if there was any legal issues in distributing copies of Vista that I would create using vlite? I tried using search but it didn't come up with anything useful so I apologize if this has been answered before.