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Windows Licensing moving up and around with newer and older licensed disks.
I have a good source of Windows 7 & 10 Windows COA Genuine Disks from a vendor on EBay. I have had successful installs of every license so far. I am wondering since I have two Windows 10 Disks about to be installed on two current windows 7 machines…..and one older Windows Vista for Business Machine that I would like to move to a Windows 7 Machine. Can I take one of the Windows 7 Licenses and use it to move up the Vista for Biz….to 7 or do I have to buy another license of 7? These are all full install disks I think they were for brand new computers and not officially installed? I assume all are legal since they come with genuine stickers and the vendor has sold 1k+ disks with great reviews. This is probably a dumb question but as many of you know I will ask anything to verify with an expert. Spent too much time dealing with mistakes to know better not to.
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With Windows 10 the COA has a scratch off area (Like on lottery tickets) to expose the last group of characters. Does the hologram show?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell/Software.aspx
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell/Software.aspx
You are very welcome and I was pleased to help you with this.
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Thank you both.