You need 15 licenses if Windows is also installed on the spares. If in your example you have 15 machines, it doesn't matter that only 10 are in use at any one time. That's why dual booting requires two licenses even though you would provably only use one at a time. So, just use the Windows 10 license generated by the Windows 10 upgrader to tell you if your license is transferrable.Įach installation of Windows needs its own license. In fact my online identity is my email addy for many purposes.
Simply use winver and read.Īnd just to answer another question often fumbled by helpful posters, this is the license generated by a Windows 10 upgrade to retail Windows 7 running in a VMWare virtual machine.Īs you can see, it is transferrable since I own the email address. So there is no need to guess about transferrability.
That is the legal reason the user cannot transfer it.
In the second the original license was granted to HP, so the rights were not transferred to the user when In the first case the orignial license was granted to the user so the Windows 10 upgrader determined it is transferrable. The following is an upgrade of an OEM Windows 7 Home license on my wife's HP All-in-One purchased from HP.com. The above is a Windows 10 upgrade of a full retail copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (purchased from the Microsoft Store online). (Note that the original edition determines the edition of Windows 10 licensed). If the license is granted to a manufacturer, it is not.Ĭompare these two images of licenses from two computers. If the license is granted to the user, it is transferable. Read the bottom of the license that appears. Since it may be of more general applicability, I have re-posted the pertinent part of the original post here for additional discussion.įortunately it is easy to tell if your new license is transferrable by typing Winver in the Start/Search box. This information was written originally as a response to a post elsewhere in this forum.