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FYI : RTM to retail
This was mentioned on another forum and included it in a couple of replies here. Thought I'd give it it's own thread however, as it may impact anyone considering using a retail key in an RTM install. According to this line of thinking, it may not work quite like that.
If this is actually the case, then I guess anyone who is using the RTM and waiting to get a retail key in October might be looking at a full reinstall after all?Just a small warning. How windows images worked before (at least back in XP) were the oem technet/msdn images were slightly different than the Retail store boxed version and the activation keys were NOT interchangeable (though there might have been a hack to get them to work. I can't remember). So if you had a retail box key then you needed a retail image. If you have a technet/msdn subscription generated key then you need the msdn iso (which I'm guessing what this leak is).
I have no idea if vista and/or win 7 will follow the same pattern.