>>> There is no OEM "version" of Windows. There are OEM licenses and retail
>>> licenses, but the version of Windows remains the same, and installation
>>> media should not matter.
>>
>> And yet, it does (or at least, it used to).
>>
>> I personally ran into problems using retail keys with MS Select VLA
>> subscription media, and OEM licenses with boxed media.
>>
>> It's possible that MS has changed this since I last tried it (it's been
>> a while), but this absolutely used to be the case.
>
> As I said, it's been a while, looks like since Vista, this hasn't been an
> issue.
>
> Shows how much I use Windows. :)

I vaguely remember something similar from back in the Win95/98 days, 
stuck at the "enter product code" page and it not accepting my code 
because I had a volume key or something.

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