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The way Microsoft handles licenses is silly anyways. I pay 200 dollars for your product and you only allow me to install it once. If I want to install it more then once I have to buy a new license key. I understand that they gotta do this stuff for like businesses but for normal home use? What if my motherboard dies? Does that mean I need to buy both a new motherboard and a new license key?
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:11:04 UTC from web-
@datpolishguy No, you replace the motherboard and continue on your merry way.
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:15:45 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg Then how come when I upgraded motherboards Windows told me it wasn't activated?
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:17:18 UTC from web-
@datpolishguy Probably because it detected new hardware and assumed you were trying to install to a new computer? I don't know. I'm not Microsoft.
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:17:56 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg Windows keys are generated with certain key-features ( hardware ID's are used ) of your hardware. Since your motherboard contains the motherload of them you can guess what has happned. Windows boots and checks the code they have versus the code of your current comnputer, it does not match, windows is not validated... There is a proper name for this, maybe hardware-id-key... I forgot. At any rate your windows-licence key is bound to your hardware-id-key that windows makes everytime you boot your system pretty much.
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:20:57 UTC from web
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@datpolishguy Remove the OEM branding with a crack.
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:21:25 UTC from web
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@flamingpandaomg Actually, you don't. The license is tied to the motherboard, so its death technically invalidates it. Microsoft typically will allow you to reactivate and revalidate your license on the replacement, but they don't /have/ to do so
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:17:47 UTC from web
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@datpolishguy Yes, it technically means you need a new windows licence. However... ... ehmm... Are we talking about windows 7 ?
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:22:28 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Windows 7 and 8. Since the activations process is the same for both.
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:25:39 UTC from web-
@datpolishguy Yes but My Digital Life only has a very good application for 1 of them since windows 8 is... yucky...
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:26:58 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Windows 8 isn't that bad. Windows 8.1 fixes a lot of flaws Windows 8 had. Most people don't like it because of the metro interface. But in reality Windows 8 is more efficient then Windows 7. It boots on a regular 7200RPM hard drive in less in 15 seconds. And on top of that it doesn't eat as much resources as Windows 7 did.
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:32:29 UTC from web-
@datpolishguy My aunt bought a PC that came prepacked with 8.1 I must say it is not bad, but untill I know a way to evade the whole "go buy licence now !" crap that a non TPA 2.0 computer brings ... I am not going to even bother...
Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 21:47:10 UTC from web
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