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Source for this clearly not being legal? From my knowledge, OEM licenses allow exactly that: transfer a PC and the license transfers with it, unless the motherboard is changed. In contrast full retail licenses can be freely transferred between PCs, and volume licenses are bound to a company, but can be moved between PCs owned by it.

But of course it's possible they limited that at some point, and nobody would accuse Microsoft licensing of being transparent.

EDIT: it's just microsoft support forums, but one reference in support of "the license is tied to the motherboard": https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...