FYI in case anyone else decides to go through this confusion: the developer
edition is $50 more than the non-developer edition. However, the developer
edition is through the business department, the non-developer is consumer.
The dev edition includes ProSupport, which is probably worth $50 since it's
guaranteed next day on-site repair.
Doing a chat sale convo without asking I was able to get a $75 discount. So
it ends up being $25 less than the best quote the consumer group got me. I
have no idea why...
One "unfortunate" thing though is that I don't get an OEM copy of Windows
to test with Boxes and virt-manager. The license says you can use a copy of
OEM Windows in a VM or on baremetal, but I have no idea how the whole
validation thing works when Windows doesn't have direct hardware access
from which it gets the licensing information. I don't know if that passes
through to the VM or not. OH well, one less thing to test!
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Chris Murphy
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