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Windows 10, the verdict

Gimmesometruth said:
No, you don't. your 7 license was converted to a 10 license. You were granted a "digital entitlement" for the 10 upgrade. Your hardware (mainly the MB/CPU) was fingerprinted and the "license", your PID, is now locked to that hardware fingerprint. MS knows that PID/fingerprint combo and 7 uses the same mechanism. It is even more locked in if you have a MB that uses a UEFI bios. There are some things you can do with older non-UEFI MB's to bypass the fingerprinting, but I'm not saying.

Well, you could probably buy a 7 license cheaper, and keep the free 10. The most flexible solution is to buy a retail copy of 10, not oem, because it is transferable to new hardware. Any major change to hardware (CPU or MB) will flag and cause you to get a new "license"/PID on oem installs.
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If I understand you correctly, I think we're on the same page.

FWIW: My desktop copy of 7 is retail, but my laptop is OEM. I prefer retail whenever possible precisely because it gives me more flexibility, as you mention.

Personally, I'm not all that interested in dual-boot, was just joining in the conversation.
 
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