In article <26A6B985-77F4-4350-9BD2-4B076111EA4A@microsoft.com>,
terri@no.spam.mvps.org says...
> OEMs are tied to the
> machine on which they are first installed.


That is true. (Not that I would doubt you.) But I think it is important
for people to know that this has always been the case. As cynical as I am
about Microsoft, I agree that this is only fair. An OEM license usually
only costs the consumer about 35 - 50 bucks on top of the cost of the
hardware depending on the volume of sales of the manufacturer. Most
people who buy brand name computers keep them for 3-5 years. That's a
pretty good price for that long of a use. So it is fair to say you can
only use an OEM license on the one computer.

P.S. For those who don't know: OEM stands for Original Equipment
Manufacturer. The license can only be sold with new hardware and it has
to stay with whatever hardware you bought it with. While it is legal to
sell it with a hard drive, technically, if you move the hard drive to a
different computer then the license has to go too.