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That gave me pause for a moment. I thought that with Windows 8, MS basically made System Builder copies equivalent to retail copies for self-built systems. (It was OK for the original owner to transfer the license to a new system, just like for a Retail license. If a system with a System Builder license was sold to someone else, it was supposed to act like a traditional OEM license, not transferable to new hardware.)
A little online hunting makes me think that I was correct in that.
However, I didn't know that Win8.1 went back to the same license terms as Win7: System Builder licenses are for resale only. They're intended for small computer shops, who don't do enough business to justify the mass OEM licenses used by the major PC makers. Anyone buying an 8.1 System Builder license for personal use is in technical violation of the EULA.
I hope that the Win10 license situation is sorted out by the time I do my next PC system replacement. I have a disused Win8.1 license that I could use to qualify for the upgrade, but I may not want to use it before 7/29/2016.
Microsoft has changed all of their licensing. I've only used an OEM copy once in my building, I used it on a personal PC and the police didn't come out and arrest me. :) However, I had no idea that I was forbidden.
I qualify as an OEM in that I built the system and I never tried to move it to another computer, so . . .
Hi there
What does "Pre-Order" mean ???
Either you ORDER the product or just buy it from a store.
What's Pre-order -- getting confused here -- can't be any difference between ordering and "pre-ordering" -- maybe it's just me but anybody - please explain.
Cheers
jimbo
Hi Jeff, You might have to use the smaller version for the GIF to work.(This is one of the two I posted isn't it?) That's why I shrunk one at http://gifmaker.me/resizer/