Reply 80 of 89, by Tetrium
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What this means, for us, is that you can buy a machine with the cheapest Windows 7 edition, format the hard disk, and afterwards you can grab yourself a DVD of Windows 7 Ultimate to install it.Then you just have to install the digital certificate issued to your manufacturer (they are very easy to find on the forums) and .. voila! your Windows 7 Ultimate edition will pass the authentication and validation procedures with flying colors......
Strange...
I know that royalty oem XP install media are indeed different. You can install such an XP on any non-royalty oem machine but it won't activate and MS won't activate it when you try the phone method.
Installing a standard XP on a royalty oem motherboard will behave exactly like any other motherboard:It will still ask you to enter a key and activate it (unless you're using a corporate version of pro ofcourse).
I also once got hold of an old Fujitsu-Siemens P3 motherboard which had a licence for 2k. I installed a FS XP Home on it and it worked (that motherboard was sold with a system that let you pick wether you wanted 2k or XP btw).
Anyway, for your windows 7 trick, you'll still need a Royalty oem motherboard?