Carl Denk wrote:
> Maybe there is a gray area of OEM licenses. The case I  said was a 
> large  OEM (Compaq), and probably the same applies to HP, Dell, and 
> similar who handle the licenses . I see OEM versions of XP for sale, and 
> I would think the license would go back to Microsoft on those, and they 
> could be moved to another machine, but I have o experience to confirm or 
> deny that. ~)     Note that I did not plan to have one license on more 
> than 1 machine.
>   
There are two types of OEM windows.

Big brand OEM licenses (known by microsoft as "royalty OEM" are locked 
to the bios and do not normally need activation. If you change the 
motherboard then they will go into deactivated mode. Afaict MS usually 
won't activate them under theese circumstances though there may be ways 
to persude them.

Whitebox OEM (known by ms as "system builder") licenses are activated in 
the same way as retail licenses. Afaict if you are prepared to lie on 
the phone to MS it should be possible to get theese reactivated on a 
different machine. Anyone can buy theese though you are suppposed to 
register as a system builder before using them (MS don't seem to enforce 
this requirement in any way though).
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