I have been rather surprised by just how many people have gone the retail route this time.
I have only ever bought retail - as each OS is released I buy a retail upgrade and I know that the product will last me the lifetime of the OS no matter how many upgrades I make.
I was expecting a lot of people to take the OEM route, but a fair few people have seen that retail is the route of less resistance with regards future hardware upgrades.
If people who had looked at Ultimate OEM had stopped and instead gone for retail but a lower version they would find that they still have all the features they require but in retail - so no activation worries in the future.
The way I see it, if you're going to be incorrectly licensed you might as well not be licensed at all.
All these people who look to buy "Dell" licenses or OEM to go on more than one machine etc.
Those people might just as well go online and pirate it as they are no more legal etc.
I have only ever bought retail - as each OS is released I buy a retail upgrade and I know that the product will last me the lifetime of the OS no matter how many upgrades I make.
I was expecting a lot of people to take the OEM route, but a fair few people have seen that retail is the route of less resistance with regards future hardware upgrades.
If people who had looked at Ultimate OEM had stopped and instead gone for retail but a lower version they would find that they still have all the features they require but in retail - so no activation worries in the future.
The way I see it, if you're going to be incorrectly licensed you might as well not be licensed at all.
All these people who look to buy "Dell" licenses or OEM to go on more than one machine etc.
Those people might just as well go online and pirate it as they are no more legal etc.