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Need some confusion cleared up about migrating to a new system.
So I've made the mistake of upgrading to 10 on two of my systems when I had the intention of building a new computer this winter and cycling them so I'm stuck in a bit of a predicament.
Basically, I own a recording studio and one of the things I do is cycle my computers as I upgrade. The recording studio gets the new machine, I adopt the recording studios previous machine and give my current machine to my wife. My wifes computer is the only one I didn't get around to upgrading and so swapping hers out will be cake. The other two though I've read will be much harder, if not impossible to do.
When I built both machines, I did so with OEM Windows 7 which leads to my first question: I got my upgrade to Windows 8 directly through Microsoft and I'm unsure what kind of key was given to me. Is there a way to see whether the key I bought for Windows 8 is considered still OEM or not since I'd be able to reregister my current upgrade if it's a normal key?
Second thing... the downtime on my studio is not good for clients. Being that I have 10 installed already on it, having to do the whole upgrade process over again as well as prep the system and reinstall everything isn't an option. Is there any way around having to do that even if it means buying a new key for it? I can take the time on my personal machine to go through all that again, but not the studio as I have over 200 applications that would need to be reinstalled. I'd much rather avoid it with both but eh...
Thanks for taking the time to read.