RebateMonger
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- Dec 24, 2005
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I bought my two "Family Discount" keys last month. Haven't actually USED them. But I figured that fifty dollars would always be a good deal for Home Premium.
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Historically, when you upgraded an OEM version, you end up with an upgraded OEM license. When you upgraded a Retail version, you then had an upgraded Retail license.
You should be able to ("legally") move your OEM Vista Upgrade IF you move it to another PC that ALREADY has a "legal" copy of XP. You'd have to uninstall Vista from the original PC. But you can't "move" the Vista license to a "bare" PC because you can't move the underlying OEM XP license.
Once you remove Vista from the original PC, you should be able to use the Vista Upgrade to upgrade A DIFFERENT XP PC (that has a pre-exising XP license, either OEM or Retail).
But, like many Microsoft licensing issues, I don't believe there's an "official" answer. But who knows, maybe it's in the Upgrade's EULA?
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Historically, when you upgraded an OEM version, you end up with an upgraded OEM license. When you upgraded a Retail version, you then had an upgraded Retail license.
You should be able to ("legally") move your OEM Vista Upgrade IF you move it to another PC that ALREADY has a "legal" copy of XP. You'd have to uninstall Vista from the original PC. But you can't "move" the Vista license to a "bare" PC because you can't move the underlying OEM XP license.
Once you remove Vista from the original PC, you should be able to use the Vista Upgrade to upgrade A DIFFERENT XP PC (that has a pre-exising XP license, either OEM or Retail).
But, like many Microsoft licensing issues, I don't believe there's an "official" answer. But who knows, maybe it's in the Upgrade's EULA?