licensing options and transfering to new PC

[Guest]

I've used vista beta 2 and RC1 on my system and I'm impressed with the
operating system. The question I have is regarding the licensing in vista. If
I buy for example vista home premium, and use it on this PC, which will be
upgraded or replaced in the future (6 - 12 months) can I transfer the copy to
my new pc?

If I can then great. If I can't then :
1] What's the reason?
2] Which edition of Vista would allow this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Beck]

I've used vista beta 2 and RC1 on my system and I'm impressed with the
operating system. The question I have is regarding the licensing in vista.
If
I buy for example vista home premium, and use it on this PC, which will be
upgraded or replaced in the future (6 - 12 months) can I transfer the copy
to
my new pc?

If I can then great. If I can't then :
1] What's the reason?
2] Which edition of Vista would allow this?

The boxed retail versions will allow this, not the cheap OEM versions.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Any "retail version" of Windows Vista may be transferred to
a different PC in the future, providing you first remove it
from the original PC by reformatting the hard drive or partition
it was originally installed on.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I've used vista beta 2 and RC1 on my system and I'm impressed with the
operating system. The question I have is regarding the licensing in vista. If
I buy for example vista home premium, and use it on this PC, which will be
upgraded or replaced in the future (6 - 12 months) can I transfer the copy to
my new pc?

If I can then great. If I can't then :
1] What's the reason?
2] Which edition of Vista would allow this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Phil Chung]

I've used vista beta 2 and RC1 on my system and I'm impressed with the
operating system. The question I have is regarding the licensing in vista. If
I buy for example vista home premium, and use it on this PC, which will be
upgraded or replaced in the future (6 - 12 months) can I transfer the copy to
my new pc?

If I can then great. If I can't then :
1] What's the reason?
2] Which edition of Vista would allow this?

Thanks in advance.

No problem if it's a retail version.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Any retail full edition of Vista will be fine. RC2 doesn't matter because
you cannot replace it with an upgrade edition anyway. A retail edition may
be moved to a new computer.