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To: goldworldnet who wrote (89854)7/25/2015 4:50:08 PM
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Not sure of licensing issues with games but Microsoft ties the license to the hardware for Windows and Office products. The activation code is a hash calculation of the hard drive serial number, the MAC address of the ethernet interface and information from the motherboard's BIOS. I may be wrong but I don't think they tie Office to the OS on the platform so you should be able to install it on each bootable partition. I did this many years ago on a dual boot Windows 98 and Windows 2000 and it didn't complain. If you make them into virtual machines there might be a problem because you could theoretically have them all running under the same registered license key...but why you would want to do that escapes me.

I'm not a gamer so I can't lend any help there as to which OS should be used or if all of them need to be used. Windows 7 and 8.1 can set options to emulate earlier version (look at compatibility options) and fool the software into thinking it is running on a different platform than it is really installed on. I haven't looked at Windows 10 yet for those features but I would be surprised if the features were removed.
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