Microsoft System Builder question

fastar1

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I'm trying to find out what our costs would be for about 200 Windows OS licenses / year if the company were a licensed Microsoft System Builder.

Anybody have any experience or insight into this question?
 
Why not contact Microsoft direct? I am sure they will have someone more then happy to talk to you, especially when talking about that many licenses.
 
fastar1 said:
I'm trying to find out what our costs would be for about 200 Windows OS licenses / year if the company were a licensed Microsoft System Builder.

Anybody have any experience or insight into this question?
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In this day and age, why would you build your own systems? Esp in large quantities, TOC is much lower on Tier 1 Vendor machines, while you get additional benefit of taking advantage of billions of dollars these vendors spend on R&D annually...

Unless you have an ultra, ultra-specialised requirement.... In which case I'm equally curious :)

Disclosure: I happen to work for HP, so am somewhat biased.

If you want your local Microsoft OEM contact, PM me and I'll be happy to connect you.
 
I was following the information online and didn't come across any direction to call Microsoft. I'll send you a PM gqelements

I'm asking because I'm trying to source a PC and one potential supplier offers one with no OS, or the option of $100 for Win 7 Home Premium. So I wanted to see if there were a cheaper route than that.
 
fastar1 said:
I was following the information online and didn't come across any direction to call Microsoft. I'll send you a PM gqelements

I'm asking because I'm trying to source a PC and one potential supplier offers one with no OS, or the option of $100 for Win 7 Home Premium. So I wanted to see if there were a cheaper route than that.
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One thing to keep in mind is that depending on your application for thse PCs, Home Premium really lacks a lot of enterprise/business networking features availabe (and used) in Pro.

Looking forward to chatting later!
 
You don't want to be a system builder/OEM. Back in the Win98 days the company I worked for payed $2.5M for 2 years, plus something like $75.00 per copy. I can only imagine the costs are higher now.

Check with companies like Tiger Direct or PC Canada. If you buy a certain amount of hardware form them (I believe it's motherboard, CPU, memory, and hard drive but I could be wrong), then you qualify for purchasing the OEM version of Windows 7. That would be a significant saving. That $100.00 per copy is as cheap as it gets.
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