Vista - licensing options and transfering to new PC

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.

"Turbine64" <Turbine64@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC411775-4428-4240-9D58-A9AB6B568BF7@microsoft.com...
> 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.

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Turbine64" wrote:

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.

On 31 Jan, 13:49, Turbine64 <Turbin...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> 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.

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.

"Turbine64" <Turbine64@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC411775-4428-4240-9D58-A9AB6B568BF7@microsoft.com...
> 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.