From: Aahz Maruch
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013, John Sessoms wrote:
I was able to buy Windoze 7 Pro 64-bit OEM version when I was building
my new Photoshop computer last year.
My strong recommendation is to avoid OEM Windows if there's any
likelihood you'll change the hardware significantly before changing
Windows versions (or if you're planning to run Windows in a VM).
Microsoft is much stickier about transferring licenses around with OEM
copies.
Maybe they are, but I have not found that to be true. The only real
difference with OEM Windoze is Microsoft does not provide product
support. You get your product support from the OEM.
I build my own computers. I *am* the OEM.
I use this computer for goofing off on the Internet. It's about 15 years
old. I rebuild it whenever I have to.
Since I first built it, it has gone from Windows95 to Windoze98 to
WindozeNT 4.0 to WindozeXP Pro - ALL OEM versions.
Along the way it's been through several hard drives (starting at 850MB)
& at least 3 motherboards (including a switch over from Intel to AMD).
The current installation of WindozeXP Pro was on the system with the
last motherboard change and was cloned over to the current 250GB drive
in a FAT32 partition.
I have had to "RE-register" a couple of times. Mostly, I've not had any
problems doing so.
The only problem I've ever had with Microsoft was I misplaced the (OEM
product key) certificate when I moved back home from school & had to
download a product key hacker to extract it before I could convert the
current drive partition to NTFS.
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