Need advice about Win7 Home 64 bit

[FIREWALL]

If I do another rig upgrade and they try to charge me their playing with the wrooong person.

[Arclight]

Try to just find an e-mail address through their regular channels to send an e-mail to... impossible.

I have one from when I tried out the beta and RC though, communicated quite a bit with 'm through that one. Might give that a shot.

[FIREWALL]

You'de be surprised how fast THEY want to communicate on email after you stop payment after it's been shipped.

Oh they want to talk then.

[Arclight]

I don't doubt that for a second.


Alright, got it activated by phone, free number and automated. Not bad, at least I didn't get some semi-professional techie.

[FIREWALL]

Talked to MS. OEM is no frills packageing and no Tech Support.

Updates ans everything else is same as FULL Package.

yep its just the CD and sticker without the box and manual


everybody just throws away the box and nobody reads the manual anyway so i cant see why anyone would ever NOT get an OEM version when buying.

that said the "rules" say your suppose to only buy it when your building or upgrading to a new system so the fine print says you MUST purchase PC hardware at or about the same time period but i have never seen any evidence that that rule is ever enforced.

if you use it for an upgrade without buying hardware you could be in trouble if Bill Gates ever knocks on your door to check compliance.

EDIT: just make sure your getting the hologram CD and not the Dell OEM CD which is full of their bundled crap so if that is what you are getting make sure its at a discount to the hologram CD

[Castout]

I would buy the Full version. My OEM disc cracked and MS wouldn't want to send chargeable replacement disc.