Can I legally install Visual Studio 2005 Professional on my Laptop and on my Desktop

[piscis]

Can I legally install Visual Studio 2005 Professional on my Laptop and on my Desktop computers?

[jcavard]

depends on the licence you purchase, check if you're allowed to. that's where it must be written. but I would think you cannot.

[wossname]

I think as long as you are the only person that uses them then its ok. You certainly can't have both copies running at the same time. Check the EULA.

[piscis]

Can this be considered that I can, I will be the only person using it, my grandma does not want to learn it.

I got nothing to loose, I will install it on my Desktop computer and will try to register it to see what Microsoft says.



END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT SOFTWARE

1.1 General License Grant. Microsoft grants to you as an individual, a personal,
nonexclusive license to use the Software, and to make and use copies of the Software for the
purposes of designing, developing, testing, and demonstrating your software product(s),
provided that you are the only individual using the Software.
If you are an entity,

Microsoft grants to you a personal, nonexclusive license to
use the Software, and to make and use copies of the Software, provided that for each individual
using the Software within your organization, you have acquired a separate and valid license for
each such individual.

[mpdeglau]

The way I read it, you can have it on multiple computers as long as you are the only person using the software.

[wossname]

Should be ok. You can never trust Grandma's though.

[birthjay]

It seems I read somewhere that you could do that if you are a developer that needs to travel. The reasoning being that if you are on the road then you obviously can not be in two places at once. However, what if your brother-in-law comes over and writes a few apps while you are away and then charges people for them. And you gave him permission to do so. What happens then if the wheels fall off of your car and your dog barks at midnight waking up a neighbor and they come over to develop a few apps?

Man! We could worry ourselves to death over it....while Bill sits back and smiles.

[piscis]

very funny birthjay, I like it and LOL.

Thanks all I think I should be ok.

[PlayKid]

It is completely ethical issue on Computers....haha.....
But I think you can do that thou, just a stupid question.
As VS2005 Express version can be download for free and there is no limitation on using it, if I use it to distribute my software that I have created, am i legal??

[mpdeglau]

Yes the license for the Epress Edition permits distribution of the created software.

[PlayKid]

then who will gonna buy the Visual Studio 2005???????
if everybody just gonna download it off from the website.

[mpdeglau]

People will buy the other versions for the features that are missing in the express edition.