In article <05A86F0D-084F-4EA3-B009-FF7AE1D418B0@microsoft.com>,
terri@no.spam.mvps.org says...
> Now that that's said, although I've often had to reactivate XP, I've never
> been refused, but then, my licenses are all retail. I don't have any real
> life experience with OEM versions, although I've never seen a report in any
> of the newsgroups I cover that showed that a new activation had been
> refused.

I was going to talk about reactivation but didn't have the energy last
night. I have never had any trouble reactivating an OEM license.
Sometimes you have to call in but as long as you explain that you have
moved the hardware and license together in order to comply with the
license they have been happy to give you a new number. It's not as if I
have had this come up a lot but it is really pretty easy to comply with
the OEM licensing rules. Of course, their behavior may change at any
time. But I don't expect it will.

I just didn't want people to misinterpret what you had said about the OEM
rules and think they were new or onerous in any way. I just wanted to
make sure people knew the OEM rules were the same as they have always
been and nothing to fret about.