nightsurge on 10 March 2009
| Final-Fan said: Isn't it one machine ... at a time? So if I rip a license out of an old machine getting trashed anyway, it's fine? Well, a brief search reveals that I'm wrong, but seriously, Microsoft DOES NOT CARE about individuals doing this. They will jump on any business they find out is doing this I'm sure, but I just don't believe they will ever go after any private person who moves an OEM license to a new PC. In any case, aside from the bad suggestions he does point out that he knows someone with a couple spare licenses, and I bet you do too. |
OEM licenses are not. It is one machine. Period. Non-transferrable. OEM is for the individual system it was made for and that is it. Retail licenses are the only ones that can legally be moved when another system has been recycled or discontinued use.
I'm going about this from a system builder perspective, as I am one. I'm just trying to get him to not suggest such actions just to try and make this build look cheaper/better than it is.
