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<blockquote data-quote="Mathiau" data-source="post: 237602" data-attributes="member: 19236"><p>the licensing i have read meant that if buying an OEM copy it is only to be installed on a single system and can not be moved, (OEM being the $130 dollar version with nothing fancy with it) Retail being he $300 version with all the nice packaging.</p><p></p><p>A retail copy however can be moved to any other system , as you said, as long as it is removed from the prior system</p><p></p><p>This is why you can not take say a Dell install Disk and use the key on another system, because it is licensed for installtion solely on that dell.</p><p></p><p>OEM and Retail disk use a different "code" base so to speak., an OEM code will not work with a Retail disk and vice versa, this is how MS knows if it is an OEM install or a Retail install.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mathiau, post: 237602, member: 19236"] the licensing i have read meant that if buying an OEM copy it is only to be installed on a single system and can not be moved, (OEM being the $130 dollar version with nothing fancy with it) Retail being he $300 version with all the nice packaging. A retail copy however can be moved to any other system , as you said, as long as it is removed from the prior system This is why you can not take say a Dell install Disk and use the key on another system, because it is licensed for installtion solely on that dell. OEM and Retail disk use a different "code" base so to speak., an OEM code will not work with a Retail disk and vice versa, this is how MS knows if it is an OEM install or a Retail install. [/QUOTE]
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