Upgrading Home Premium to New Computer

gregrocker · 03 May 2014

For how long? OEM is supposedly tied to the first mobo installed upon, cannot migrate. I wonder when they changed this.

We need to read the EULA to see if we are still quoting it correctly on this.

andrew129260 · 03 May 2014

um, as long as I can remember....
Maybe I did it and it worked and I wasn't supposed to? *shrug*

bigmck · 03 May 2014

andrew129260 said:

um, as long as I can remember....
Maybe I did it and it worked and I wasn't supposed to? *shrug*

I think this is the case. I can't find where anything has changed.

bobland · 05 May 2014

I can't recall the exact date of the OEM copy but I'd venture to guess it's at least 3 years old. The entire process was done via pre-recorded "robot." At no time did I speak to a live person, nor did I give out any information as to anything other than the Product Key.

Regarding the statement about the speed diffs between my wife's new computer and mine, we both have SSDs. Her CPU is an A series AMD, I think a 5400 dual core ( as you can see my brain memory is shot to hell ), while mine is a stock i7-920. Her main application is MS Office - she does legal work while I'm just an old guy fooling around with Ableton Live and GTA4. Nothing serious.

andrew129260 · 05 May 2014

bobland said:

I can't recall the exact date of the OEM copy but I'd venture to guess it's at least 3 years old. The entire process was done via pre-recorded "robot." At no time did I speak to a live person, nor did I give out any information as to anything other than the Product Key.

Same here, robot ---> product key ----> done