You could be right. It's been years since I've installed anything other
than Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 before that.
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"xTenn" <xTennREMOVETHISPART@tds.net> wrote in message
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> terri wrote:
>> This isn't quite right. An XP product key is tied to a specific type of
>> media. In other words, an MSDN copy requires an MSDN key, an OEM number
>> requires an OEM disk and a retail key will only work with retail media.
>> There may be some exceptions, but it's true as far as I've seen since
>> release.
>
>
> Actually I would have to agree with you for MSDN 2004 forward. Prior to
> that I believe the keys were not unique between product families, IIRC.
>
> IF that is not the case I may learn something here.