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Whizzkid_amer
4 Feb 2007, 9:26am
Can the same Windows Vista CD be used on other PCs like it was with Windows Xp? And if so, how many times?
RWB
4 Feb 2007, 9:35am
OEM seems to be one PC only... ever. Buy a new PC, buy a new licence. Dunno how retail is.
csimon
4 Feb 2007, 2:15pm
OEM seems to be one PC only... ever. Buy a new PC, buy a new licence. Dunno how retail is.
Change the motherboard ...buy a new license.
airbornflght
4 Feb 2007, 4:44pm
Change the motherboard ...buy a new license.

and if your mobo fries?
CB
4 Feb 2007, 5:33pm
Well, with XP, you could usually call up the MS reps, and they would give you instrucvtions to reinstall after changing boards, but who knows about Vista...
csimon
4 Feb 2007, 5:40pm
and if your mobo fries?
Hehe ...well you can call miscrosoft and they "might" have pity ...depending on the day. I'll look for the article.
Thrax
4 Feb 2007, 5:42pm
The real deal. This is paraphrased straight from the EULAs.

NON-OEM: Install Vista to ANY PC as long as it is only installed on ONE PC at any time.
OEM: Once it is installed on that PC (READ: Motherboard/CPU combo), the license cannot be transferred to any other PC.
csimon
4 Feb 2007, 5:46pm
I found this at arstechnica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070130-8730.html) concerning OEM's but retails are mentioned. This is what I read ..."'It is Microsoft's policy to allow motherboard swaps in instances where a system is defective or has suffered a hardware failure. But you shouldn't bank on this approach; there's no guarantee it will work and, well, liars don't get ice cream. Also, while retail versions of Vista include both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, OEM versions are specific. You get one or the other. This follows from the per device restriction. The end result is that OEM versions may not be that attractive to users who frequently build new computers from the ground up."