Alias wrote, On 7/2/2014 8:51 AM:
. . .winston wrote:
Alias wrote, On 7/2/2014 6:51 AM:


MS says you may not. Experience says you can if you wait 120 days.
Besides, what's a "new computer"? MS has never stated what part of a
computer is "the" computer. Is it the processor, mother board, RAM,
case, a screw that got updated? I have even called to activate
successfully by stating I upgraded everything in the computer except the
case.


Apparently stated more clearly than understood

cf. Win7 EULA
qp
License Model. The software is licensed on a per copy per computer
basis. A computer is a physical hardware system with an internal storage
device capable of running the software. A hardware partition or blade is
considered to be a separate computer.
/qp

Doesn't appear that a mobo, processor, ram, case or screw meet the above.



And so if your hard drive dies, they expect you to buy another license?

That wasn't the purpose of my response
i.e. only to clarify that MSFT does state what a computer is and that
a mobo, processor, ram and case or screw don't appear to meet the criteria.

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...winston
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