Illegal or not MS says you can't sell them. Bottom line they can blacklist any key they feel like blacklisting. They could also decide to clamp down on TechNet subscriptions if they feel it is a problem. Selling TechNet or MSDN keys is not doing anyone a favor. The keys have a limited number of activations. How many that buy them spread them around or even resell them?
The terms for using technet are very limiting, people selling keys is a very good way to ruin a good program and the keys are limited in ways a retail key isn't. That said, anyone thinking about buying technet should do it, for less than a single ultimate retail key you get access all the MS applications and OS's you are likley to need. You even get windows 3.11
Thanks for the update on your problem. It seems our problem with HP is not similar after all. I re-flashed my bios and reinstalled w7 -reinserted the HP key and cert, and finally installed WAT. All seems fine now, so far so good.
its def something weird with the hp machines. i am seeing this from customers as i said also on LEGIT RETAIL AND OEM machines. that they actually bought from hp and another customer brought in a retail boxed SEALED bought from office depot for me to install and now he is not genuine on a hp notebook with a 100% fresh clean install and nothing on it
Poking around WatAdminSvc, I found that it does check for existence of following files grldr w7ldr xeldr
It could be that those being flagged as non-genuine might have their loaders inactive but have these files on their hard drives. It could be enough to trigger WAT.
I hope this is not off topic for this thread but I have a question. Not being a tech of such a level as many who frequent here i was wondering if using a tool like bitlocker would encrypt the drive and prevent the Gates'squad from looking in to our builds for traces of tampering? I'm not sure of HOW that works but as i understood it, it encrypts the drive and not just the files on it, correct? If that is the case then would this not solve the problem for most of us? Last thing i want to do is put good people like Hazzar or Daz out of business, LOL so please don't get offended by the blunt short sighted method that occurred to me, I'm probably wrong, but wanted to check with someone with some experience with these types of utilities. TIA TSG! Oh a quick sidebar, i inadvertently clicked on a tool that was in the win7 tools ver 1.8 folders that said s---cdump.exe, and it ran, did I screw things up? I used the tools 1.8 OEM insert, and the first time it responded with an error warning, so I rebooted and tied again and it appears I am genuine again, but am not sure what that utility did to my bios. Thanks even more in Advance )