Originally Posted by
Wharbone
I thought OEM could only be installed on one machine, but with retail you can transfer it to another computer if you wanted to. I may be wrong though.
think the only difference in oem & retail is the support......retail is supported by microsoft & oem is supported by the oem (ie dell, hp, etc)
so if you buy an oem version off ebay (that by the rules must come w/ some type of hardware, so it's usually something cheap like a fan or such) then you in reality have no technical support since then oem was the person who "bundled" the software & hardware
every version i have used was an oem bundle off of ebay...never had a problem