AFAIK the Windows OEM licenses sold at Amazon Marketplace are shipped with an installation medium.
mimosa wrote:For instance, as I suggested above, by downloading a pirate version, but then use the real activation code instead of the fake one (or however exactly that stuff works??
Usually that should work, but if it is allowed to install from a third medium (not that one that was shipped with the license) may depend on your license. Perhaps it is even possible to download an ISO from Microsoft.
mimosa wrote:My wife's laptop has OEM Windows, and there is no installation disk. So if I wanted to sell the licence to someone else, I suppose it would just be some numbers.
I think so.