Windows Licensing?

Question

Windows

Tell me about the types of windows licensing, I just can’t understand, I found an activation key (windows 7 max) on the Internet on the forum and surprisingly it suited me, moreover, many people activated this key! What does it mean? In general, as I understand it correctly, one key, one license, why did it suit many people then. I know that there is a box version, there is an oem, and how to distinguish between a windows license and the very concept of licensing.

Answer 1

The fact that you have a key to someone else's apartment does not automatically make you its owner and does not even give you the right to move into it on a leasehold basis. Only gives you the opportunity to unlock it. Do you get the analogy?

Answer 2

License (from Latin licentia "right") - permission to the right, or the right to perform certain actions, which can be certified (confirmed) by a document of the same name. In practice, licenses are also abbreviated as license agreements (agreements) providing for the issuance of private law licenses.
Licensing is the process of issuing a license.
(Copy-pasted from Wikipedia)
In this case. By purchasingM$ product, you get the right to use it. Since different people / organizations have different needs, M$ has a bunch of different licensing schemes - OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), allowing you to install only on the computer with which you sold (usually the cheapest due to many restrictions), BOX ("boxed ") - a regular license for a physicist that allows reinstallation, GGK (Get Genuine Kit) - a special license that allows you to make a pirated license without reinstallation and a corporate one, which starts from five units.
The key that was thrown to you has nothing to do with the license - you have an ordinary pirate :) It makes Windows licensed - all of a sudden - not a key and not even a beautiful holo-sticker :) An accounting document (for a yurik) or a check (for a physicist) makes it a license proof of purchase

Answer 3

Windows 7 Ultimate can be distributed through
OEM channels - this is a key that is sold with hardware
BOX - You buy a boxed
ESD license - an electronic key. As far as I know, Microsoft does not practice this under Windows 7.
What happened for you is to try restarting your computer, check and install new Windows updates. Most likely, this key will fly off for you, and the OS will say that the key is unlicensed, or after a while, when the key gets into the compromised MS databases.
I recommend checking the key that you have on the case and the one that is in the system. This can be done with a free program such as ShowKeyPlus. After launch, in the application window you will see information:
Product Name (Product Name) - the operating system currently installed on the computer
Product ID (Product Code) - product code
Installed Key - the key of the operating system currently installed on the computer
OEM Key - the key sewn into the BIOS of the laptop of the originally installed operating system