What is the difference between windows 8 pro vl

Thank you! About vonnie. Dustin McFadden. Dakhamat Mohammad. Himanshu Gautam. I have a desktop AMD. Snazzy Snook. Arnav Arya. Andrew Stephens. Perfect example would be in a school or a corporation where they have multiple PCs. Swapnil Kashikar. Cuz Racing. Recent Posts. There are no 8. WTF MS, why screw with keys for a free upgrade? Anyone have any suggestins besides actaully getting on the phone with MS?

What license key are you using? I tried downloading 8. I then created a bootable USB drive with the file. What have i done wrong? You have to run it from within Windows 8 Pro. Yeah, hears a new one - since we bought Windows 8 Pro with our Dell's, apparently the OEM license is now classified as a volume license.

Still slogging through Dell support to try to find a resolution to this one. Mac OS X is looking a lot more appealing now - half our staff are switched, when these machines die the other halve are going to switch. This is beyond idiotic! To get into the VL, you'll need to purchase 1 workstation license and 4 Windows server CALs to get in the cheapest, but if you need other licenses, might as well buy what you need you need at least 5 to get started.

It won't upgrade with MAK keys. I tried every which way I could but got the same error. I then posted on technet and no solution there. I finally just wiped it out and installed 8. The issue i think it lies in if you have made any security changes in AD in Group Policy. I had to remove a few of mine to get the Windows store to work right. Another option for upgrading Windows 8 to 8. Aug 15, 16, 24, Yep 2.

Nope, afaik both can be activated by all License Channels, i. Stop hovering to collapse Click to collapse Hover to expand Click to expand Nov 18, 7, 11, You use this key for KMS activation.