Thread: Windows 10 licence

My big sis just bought one of these for her business,
HP EliteOne 800 G2 23 Touchscreen All-in-One - HP Store Australia
and asked me if I wanted her old Dell,
With the Dell i7 4770 (which should last about 30 secs inside that case before being un-installed) and her win 10 license I should be back on the road.
The big question is--
can I use her license on the un-activated copy on my ssd?
the only Dell hardware I am planning on using is the CPU,,
I am fairly certain I can get the product code out of the Dell,, I'm not certain that is enough anymore--

Pete, I'm a bit rusty on Windows licensing in the Windows 10 world.... but I suspect it will be at least as tight as earlier versions.

The Windows license on your sisters Dell will be a Dell OEM - that means Microsoft assign a bunch of licenses very cheap to Dell to provide with there hardware. The catch is that it is not a retail license - it is only available on that Dell hardware.

In some past versions of these OEM licenses the installer checks for a Dell bios. And the Key will not work on a retail version install. Note the OEM's supplied to the big guys, Dell, HP, Toshiba etc., are not the same as the "OEM' license that many computer shops can sell you when building a machine.

So in short - It may work, but I doubt it and I'm sure from Microsoft's point of view, it's not legal.