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Questions about Windows 7 Prefessional
Hello
My present computer has windows 7 home premium 64 bit which is I believe OEM & tied to my specific hardware.
I have been looking at buying the windows 7 professional retail licence. There are many on ebay from sellers with a good reputations selling it. There are no retail shops selling the retail licence, it just seems to be OEM
I want it for several reasons.
Firstly: windows 7 home premium is limited and would like to use more than 16GB of memory and use striped raid software volumes that windows 7 professional does.
Secondly: I obviously want to install it on my present computer to use the features mentioned above.
Thirdly: I plan to upgrade my computer within a couple of years, likely a whole new motherboard, cpu and memory and reinstall the operating system.
The third part is the most important. It is very important that I am not tied to specific hardware with the licence. This is the most important reason for me to buy it.
It will be on one computer at a time obviously.
Is my understanding correct that I can do this?
If I buy it, will install & do updates after 29th July for good reason. I would prefer to pay for the OS rather that the 'free' windows 10.
Thanks