Vista Home Premium, THE version for us gamers?

Thanks mate, I think it will have to be home premium retail, £200. But at least I get choice and of x86 and x64, and now know driver signing can be disabled, it looks the right choice.

I prolly wont need the extra features of ultimate anyway.
 
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I have never had any problem re-enabling an OEM licence on a completely new PC. Called MS up and it takes 2 minutes

Always just say "hdd failed " and never ever (in about 20 attempts) been questioned further
 
So just to clarify, if I have XP Home OEM on PC A, and I might buy Vista HP Upgrade Retail and install it on PC A for now. When I come to upgrade pc to PC 2 I can't use the Vista HP Retail upgrade I bought earlier? I thought it would upgrade my OEM XP license to a Vista Retail license but you say it wont? In effect I'll have Vista HP OEM? :(
 
Meatball said:
So just to clarify, if I have XP Home OEM on PC A, and I might buy Vista HP Upgrade Retail and install it on PC A for now. When I come to upgrade pc to PC 2 I can't use the Vista HP Retail upgrade I bought earlier? I thought it would upgrade my OEM XP license to a Vista Retail license but you say it wont? In effect I'll have Vista HP OEM? :(
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The Upgrade licence depends on your upgradee licence. If you upgrade to vista on an OEM licence you will be bound by your lOEM licence. If you upgrade on a retail XP, you will have retail licence.

Remember you can transfer the retail upgrade licence but not the OEM. If you unistall vista from PCA you can install vista on PC2 as long as the XP/win 2000 licence on PC2 is valid.

I have never had any problem re-enabling an OEM licence on a completely new PC. Called MS up and it takes 2 minutes

Always just say "hdd failed " and never ever (in about 20 attempts) been questioned further
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Well that is wrong, illegal, M$ should not give you a new activation key. With Vista they are going to be alotmore strict so don't be suprissed if they tell you where to go when you next phine them up.
 
OzyOly said:
Well that is wrong, illegal, M$ should not give you a new activation key. With Vista they are going to be alotmore strict so don't be suprissed if they tell you where to go when you next phine them up.
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If I was using it on another PC at the same time sure - but if you are honest ( well ok I should say hdd isnt in use anymore, but same difference) and still only using one licence on one pc then no it isnt illegal - you have paid your money for the product, why shouldnt you be able to use it on one pc!!!
 
Well, I have to buy the retail ultimate/home premium, cause I will definitely change motherboard before the next OS version comes.
 
OzyOly said:
The Upgrade licence depends on your upgradee licence. If you upgrade to vista on an OEM licence you will be bound by your lOEM licence. If you upgrade on a retail XP, you will have retail licence.

Remember you can transfer the retail upgrade licence but not the OEM. If you unistall vista from PCA you can install vista on PC2 as long as the XP/win 2000 licence on PC2 is valid.
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Cheers for that mate, very helpful :) Looks like I'll have to be getting retail :(
 
FrankJH said:
If I was using it on another PC at the same time sure - but if you are honest ( well ok I should say hdd isnt in use anymore, but same difference) and still only using one licence on one pc then no it isnt illegal - you have paid your money for the product, why shouldnt you be able to use it on one pc!!!
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No you haven't you've bought a product. You bought OEM (whether you did or it came with your PC) and the restriction is that it cannot be transfered to a new PC (more specifically a new motherboard).

If you wish to be able to transfer the license, then you should have bought retail, not OEM.

So no, you didn't pay for the product.
 
Is there an easy way to tell if I currently have an OEM version of XP Home Upgrade? I bought it from a shop shrink wrapped and whenever I reinstall I have to stick my old win98 disk in, but suspiciously I've always had to ring up to get it activated, only once did it do it over the net without ringing. I notice on my work pc it has the letters "OEM" in the number shown in the system details "registered to". Does this mean that if these letters are not present in this number it is definately not an OEM version?
 
this_is_gav said:
No you haven't you've bought a product. You bought OEM (whether you did or it came with your PC) and the restriction is that it cannot be transfered to a new PC (more specifically a new motherboard).

If you wish to be able to transfer the license, then you should have bought retail, not OEM.

So no, you didn't pay for the product.
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At the end of the day Microsoft havent complained - If they told me to buy another copy then I would do that but they never have
 
in answer to mint sauce yes you can,

but what i want to know is, what are the unlock restrictions on the oem license?

Say i buy 32bit premium oem, but decide i want 64bit ultimate,

will i be stuck with an oem 32 bit ultimate, or will i get the option to buy the 64bit ultimate but it wont be on the oem cd???

Is there a site up yet that shows the possible upgrade options within vista?
 
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