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As far as I can tell, there is no difference between a digital licence obtained from an OEM upgrade, retail upgrade, OEM 10 initial install, or retail 10 initial install.
This perhaps suggests MS are moving away from OEM versions ie everything will be 'limited' retail in effect. I say limited as you can only transfer two or three times to a new mobo (I guess MS consider very few people would change that frequently).
I am not sure you can do anything to handle digital licences as the algorithms for the hardware binding are an MS secret (presumably to minimise piracy).
You would be amazed at how many posts I have seen where people say 'just login with MS account on new PC and it will activate' showing a complete lack of understanding of how the new digital licences and the link to MS accounts works. Of course, it will not activate automatically - you have to manually transfer licence using the troubleshooter.