Which Windows version to install on new build?

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Is Windows 7 the standard now?

I'm still using XP at the moment. Not sure whether to stick with it, use a Vista licence that isn't being used or fork out for Windows 7.
 
Im building a new pc soon too but I was wondering, if I buy Home Premium 7, will I be able to install it on my future upgraded pcs?

I dunno how licencing works really. Thanks
 
get professional addition if you want XP mode to load your old programs onto the new build, and you only get one pc licence nowadays unless you get a family pack disc set which is the 3 user licences
 
So with 1 pc licence that means I can install it when I build the new pc, but if I upgrade that in future with new motherboard/cpu/memory etc, it will require yet another licence?
 
With a retail licence you can install it on as many PCs as you like as long as it is only ever on 1 PC at a time. OEM is tied too 1 pc (normally the motherboard)
 
So, say for example you had windows 7 installed on a dekstop having been installed with a retail disc, you then bought a laptop with xp/vista on and wanted windows 7 on that, how would you put it on the laptop?
 
You just uninstall it from the desktop. Then install it on the laptop, it will likely just pass validation, but it might ask you to phone MS. You just talk to a machine on the phone and key in numbers.

If you want wins 7 on both you need 2 licences.
 
Ok cheers, thought it might be something like that, never heard of uninstalling an os, but guess you'd just reformat the partition and install the new/older os, which is the same thing by looks of it.
 
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