Windows 10 License Agreement Summary
If you upgrade from a retail version it carries the rights of a retail version.
Windows 10 license agreement summary. Note that windows licenses that are available through volume licensing are upgrade only licenses and can only be acquired on top of a base operating system license. When you install windows you are shown the windows license agreement that provides all the legal language about what you can and cannot do with windows and the responsibilities of microsoft. The search results are limited to 100 items per search. 14 minutes to read 5.
Summary details are listed by licensing id licensing program and may be expanded to display more information including parent agreements and microsoft business and services agreement mbsa. If you do not find the license terms you are looking for please use the drop down menus above to refine the search results. With windows 10 version 1903 the subscription activation. You should review the entire agreement including any supplemental license terms that accompany the software and any linked terms because all of the terms are important and together create this agreement that applies to you.
The list below outlines our suggested methods with links to the explanations of each. In proprietary software an end user license agreement eula or software license agreement is the contract between the licensor and purchaser establishing the purchaser s right to use the software. To access and view the relationship summary in the vlsc click licenses and then click relationship summary. This agreement describes your rights and the conditions upon which you may use the windows software.
Oem license 110 150 easy with a caveat. Unless accompanied by a separate microsoft license agreement for example if you are using a microsoft application that is included with and a part of windows then the microsoft software license terms for the windows operating system govern such software any software provided by us to you as part of the services is subject to these terms. If your operating system license qualifies you can purchase the windows 10 pro upgrade license or windows 10 enterprise upgrade license under your volume licensing agreement. This tutorial will show you how to find and read the microsoft software license terms eula in windows 10.
Because the free upgrade is derived from the base qualifying license windows 10 will carry that licensing too. Starting with windows 10 version 1703 windows 10 pro supports the subscription activation feature enabling users to step up from windows 10 pro to windows 10 enterprise automatically if they are subscribed to windows 10 enterprise e3 or e5.