| Microsoft and OEM licenses- angry rant |
 9krausec |
Alright. Maybe the people of Maxforums could tell me what's going on here (cause I may be missing something important). I have two computers, let's call them Charley and William. Charley is a nice hp notebook that I purchased that came with windows vista and William is my desktop that I built that has windows vista installed on it. I upgraded Charley through HP to Win7 Home Premium. Recently I purchased Win7 Professional (upgrade) and wanted to put it on Charley and transfer the Win7 Home Premium to William (remote desktop = pretty sweet to check in on renders), but the license will not let me put Win7 Home Premium (OEM and Upgrade from Vista to Win7 Disk) on William because the CD key forbids it. I called MS, they told me to call HP and then HP told me that it is MS's deal.
I understand that the license of Premium that came with my notebook is OEM, but I also understand that part of the cost (no matter how little or how large) of the notebook was for that OEM version of Vista TO Win7 Premium. In my mind I see no moral/ethical issue with swapping the licenses out and am actually pretty upset that I cannot do as such since both licenses are "My property". Even if I decided to not swap them out and have premium running on Charlie and Professional running on William, they both still would be operational at the same time!!!!
Being a loyal customer to MS for all these years I really don't understand what the big deal is (probably some stupid red tape) for them to grant access to the KEY to allow me to install Premium on William even though it was upgraded from an OEM license.
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8/20/2010 10:58:01 PM (last edit: 8/20/2010 10:58:01 PM)
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| BishBashRoss |
If you phone Microsoft and say you had to replace your motherboard because it broke they should provide you with a new key/ let you activate an oem version on a new machine.
Maxing and Relaxing
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8/20/2010 11:09:04 PM (last edit: 8/20/2010 11:09:24 PM)
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| 9krausec |
I already called them and told them my computer blew up and that I needed the key released, no go... Besides, I shouldn't need to lie to them to get the resolved. It just kind of pisses me off that now a days even when you buy something it is not truly yours due to the licensing/policy that is in place. Just like someone reselling a version of max (I guess that was sort of a big deal because the license was still technically under Autodesk's control).
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8/20/2010 11:13:22 PM (last edit: 8/20/2010 11:13:22 PM)
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| htt_75@yahoo.com |
U must be license abiding citizen lol
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8/20/2010 11:49:00 PM (last edit: 8/20/2010 11:49:00 PM)
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| 9krausec |
HarHar Htt
Well I dug deeper down the rabbit hole and discovered that each HP motherboard is tattooed with something called a BOM of sorts that allows access to these OEM cd keys that makes the operation of your OS capable. So in short it is a lost cause and I think I am just going to buy another version of Win7 that I can call mine.. MINE I SAY!!!
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8/20/2010 11:56:28 PM (last edit: 8/20/2010 11:56:28 PM)
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| soontekk |
oem licenses are basically 'throw away licenses' they charge you less but you cant upgrade,move,change the license. in the long run they always winwinwin and you lose³
bastards
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8/21/2010 1:40:37 AM (last edit: 8/21/2010 1:40:37 AM)
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| hiostu |
OEM licenses can only be used on the computer you bought it for. It's just non transferable. That's why you pay only 30 or 40 dollars for it. It wouldn't be a problem if you had bought a full license for the product.
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8/21/2010 11:11:06 AM (last edit: 8/21/2010 11:11:06 AM)
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