no calls to robo activation at Microsoft. Good times.
Well I think if MS can tell when the os has been installed with an embedded key, they also ought to be able to tell when the os has been uninstalled with the same key.
Originally when I bought 8 I installed it on my desktop, used it for two weeks, grew tired of the blah gui and went back to seven. About a week ago after Microsoft announced the coming of 8.1 I converted my Windows 7 x86 - x64 laptop and migrated it to Windows 8, when it asked for the key, it kicked it back to me saying it was not a good key, so I had to call the MS robo call center to DE activate the previous install and get a new set of numbers so that the laptop install would be genuine.
Not that is was a real big hassle, but you would think it would be a two way street on the install / unistall factor.