vista ultimate OEM or RTM

[Guest]

hi, i am using xp currently and considering to upgrade to vista...
yea, so i went to the shops in my local computer center, currently they
offer 2 kinds of vista ultimate, OEM and RTM.. but OEM is a lot cheaper,
like 33% cheaper than RTM

so, i wanna ask is there any difference between those 2?
if you can direct me to a webpage is also ok...

btw, can we use the windows 98/2000 style start menu on windows vista?

many thanks

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP]

They are both RTM (Release To Manufacture)..

Take a look here at OEM..

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070130-8730.html

hi, i am using xp currently and considering to upgrade to vista...
yea, so i went to the shops in my local computer center, currently they
offer 2 kinds of vista ultimate, OEM and RTM.. but OEM is a lot cheaper,
like 33% cheaper than RTM

so, i wanna ask is there any difference between those 2?
if you can direct me to a webpage is also ok...

btw, can we use the windows 98/2000 style start menu on windows vista?

many thanks

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[Guest]

thanks a lot, thats a good read also... but i think oem version have 1-3
phone calls according to the shop assistant...

 

[Guest]

The key words to read from that write-up:

"limited support" should be read as NO SUPPORT by Microsoft

"tied to motherboard" should be read as "you cannot upgrade your
hardware" without a major confrontation with Microsoft. Your
activation/product key are tied to your current configuration. If you upgrade
after activation, which according to some posts may be nothing more than
updating drivers, your activation may be revoked. The idea is to prevent the
OEM being transferred to another machine.

The OEM version is typically the same price as an upgrade disk. Get the
upgrade.

 

[thetruthhurts]

The key words to read from that write-up:

"limited support" should be read as NO SUPPORT by Microsoft

So what? If their support was any good why would forums like this get
hundreds of posts daily?

 

[Brian W]

"tied to motherboard" should be read as "you cannot upgrade your
hardware" without a major confrontation with Microsoft. Your
activation/product key are tied to your current configuration. If you
upgrade
after activation, which according to some posts may be nothing more than
updating drivers, your activation may be revoked. The idea is to prevent
the
OEM being transferred to another machine.

I've said it here before, nowhere in my OEM licence does it say the licence
is tied to the motherboard.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I've said it here before, nowhere in my OEM licence does it say the licence
is tied to the motherboard.

The actual wording says something like 'tied to the original device."
Of course, "device" is not defined so that leaves it up to your
interpretation. Not to worry. From what I hear, the activation call center
is very reasonable about granting reactivations.