On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 07:54:19 +0100, scott wrote:

>>>> 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.

I remember it with XP as well.

Which tracks with what I found S-ing TFW. ;)

Jim



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