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Retail enables you to change any part of the system including motherboard without breaking any rules.
You can only run one instance at any one time.

Oem is tied to the board it was originaly installed on, but you can upgrade any other component bar the motherboard.
 
RJC said:
Retail enables you to change any part of the system including motherboard without breaking any rules.
You can only run one instance at any one time.

Oem is tied to the board it was originaly installed on, but you can upgrade any other component bar the motherboard.
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As he said. Plus with retail you get all the retail packaging, and user guide, and I think more support, with OEM you get a CD and a licence...
 
It's like any other OEM product there's no significant difference aside from packaging and in the retail you get both 32 & 64bit discs.

It's supposedly against the EULA to re-activate the OEM version on a new system but if you phone up Microsoft they'll happily help you do it...
 
mmj_uk said:
It's like any other OEM product there's no significant difference aside from packaging and in the retail you get both 32 & 64bit discs.

It's supposedly against the EULA to re-activate the OEM version on a new system but if you phone up Microsoft they'll happily help you do it...
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I thought you had to send off for the 64Bit disk with retail?
 
Meatball said:
I thought you had to send off for the 64Bit disk with retail?
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ive been dealing with this lately, my understanding is that only Vista Ultimate Retail comes with both 32 bit and 64 bit disks, the others you have to chase MS up and pay for shipping...

My problem is i have OEM version of Vista Ultimate and it says on the disk 'Includes Anytime Upgrade' but on the other side of the disk it says 'This disk only contains 32 bit Software'... i tried for about half an hour last night trying to figure out where to get my 'free' copy of Vista 64 bit due to the issues with RAM allocation in 32 bit but its next to impossible, i cant find out how to request my free copy at all...
 
Keltik THC said:
ive been dealing with this lately, my understanding is that only Vista Ultimate Retail comes with both 32 bit and 64 bit disks, the others you have to chase MS up and pay for shipping...

My problem is i have OEM version of Vista Ultimate and it says on the disk 'Includes Anytime Upgrade' but on the other side of the disk it says 'This disk only contains 32 bit Software'... i tried for about half an hour last night trying to figure out where to get my 'free' copy of Vista 64 bit due to the issues with RAM allocation in 32 bit but its next to impossible, i cant find out how to request my free copy at all...
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Here you go :). VAT ID can be left blank and under "Product name as it appears on the CD" put 'Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit SP1'. It's not free though :confused:.
 
Meatball said:
Here you go :). VAT ID can be left blank and under "Product name as it appears on the CD" put 'Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit SP1'. It's not free though :confused:.
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thanks man, but that link doesnt seem to work... i get 'order could not be completed' or something... i undertstand the upgrade isnt totally free, according to Microsoft i will have to pay for shipping.. or are you talking about paying for the full upgrade?
 
mmj_uk said:
It's like any other OEM product there's no significant difference aside from packaging and in the retail you get both 32 & 64bit discs.

It's supposedly against the EULA to re-activate the OEM version on a new system but if you phone up Microsoft they'll happily help you do it...
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They will only help you do it if you are doing so legitimately.
Actually call them up and tell them the truth of what you're doing - yer, I'm attempting to activate my OEM copy of the OS on a motherboard other than the one it was originally activated on - and funnily enough they won't help you do it.

There is nothing "supposedly" about it - it is against the EULA.
If you have "moved" your OEM product from one machine to another you're no more legally licensed than somebody who pirated their copy of the OS.
 
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