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Yeah, but MS is pretty clear again that OEM/SystemBuilder is not intended for personal use. Unless you are building the machine to sell to another party and continue to support, you should NOT be purchasing the OEM/SystemBuilder license.
No way to enforce it though. Install, enter key, activate, use. Those copies were to easy to buy too. I bought my Windows 7 OEM from Tiger Direct, no questions asked. I didn't even have to buy any other hardware with it. Same deal for NewEgg etc. I keep my hardware for a long time so I wasn't going to transferring be it to another PC. And it was lot cheaper than buying the full retail. << The usual reason people chose it over Retail version.
And the thing is, the exact reason why an OEM license is cheaper is because Microsoft is under no obligation to provide any support for it at all. So there is no legitimate reason to complain about it when Microsoft refuses to provide support.
Yep, buy OEM system builders and you are your tech support. Talking to yourself doesn't usually help though.
But it's not like Microsoft strictly enforces non-transferabilty. Just look at what they opened up with linking digital licenses to Microsoft Accounts.
True but that's only a recent change. It wasn't always that easy to transfer an OEM license. Doesn't seem to matter how you got a DL now. I don't think it matters if it was obtained from an OEM or Retail install, its just a DL. The Product ID might tell you but I don't know how you decode those? In the past it would have xxxxx-OEM-xxxx etc, but I don't think its like that now. Activation has had some big changes with Digital Licenses. And is still changing with the linked to your account stuff. It appears as though every PC gets a DL. The only exception would be Enterprise activated with a KMS key. One would hope KMS keys are excluded.
Yep they have flipped ok in the wrong direction and if I knew then what I know now I would never have touched the 10 OEM and just installed it straight to this machine and then dual booted an ISO of my Home 7 to it afterwards.Microsoft has flip flopped numerous times
As I said Wonderful Microsoft and even more so after reading some of this rot today
Microsoft adds another option to its complex Windows 10 patching story | ZDNet some extra links within it making for the folks with a PHd in gobbledegook forget the idiot plebs like myself