Quote Originally Posted by AJR View Post
It's not specifically bound to the physical hardware inside the pc... it is bound to the pc itself. For example, a Dell Optiplex GX620 comes with a COA on the case for Windows XP Professional. That COA was in a series that was issued by Microsoft to Dell to attach to that GX620 from the factory (if that's what the pc was ordered with by the customer). The restore partition or the recovery discs made from the GX620 will be an XP Professional installation specific for the GX620. It doesn't mean that the GX620 always has to be Windows XP Professional - if the customer purchases a license and software for Windows 7 to install on the pc at a later time, it can be installed.

The hardware inside the GX620 pc - the memory, hard drive, expansion cards, even the motherboard aren't tied to the COA on the case and can be parted out and put in other pc's. But that COA is supposed to be born and die with the the GX620.
So, what your saying is that the COA is for a particular series basically?



That is what I was figuring...I knew it wasnt attached to the physical hardware.