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I had read on MS Technet forums that Upgrades are tied to the upgraded OS license and must be paired with it on any migration, so that if you have an OEM it can't migrate since tied to hardware, but if you use retail for the upgraded OS then it and the Upgrade are portable to migrate to another machine as long as it is only one at a time.
When I asked the MVP's how this is enforced since the upgraded OS is not deactivated or linked to the upgrade, they told me that it is not but is only binding in the EULA, that you can in actuality move an Upgrade anywhere you want as long as it is one machine at a time.
Just to be safe, I pulled out my retail XP to put on my laptop to use with the Upgrade disk so it would be portable for life, but when it arrived it clean installed to formatted HDD, so I didn't need it. So much for Technet's EULese.
Now Technet is insisting that these clean installs are against the EULA and could later be caught up with by WGA.
Who has time for all this? (Technet)