Get Windows 7 on another computer

I recently bought a ThinkPad Edge 14 and with it a copy of the 64-bit Windows 7 preinstalled.

Seeing that I use based on unix systems for work, I was wondering if I could wear somehow the copy of Windows 7 that came on the ThinkPad Edge on my desk at home.

It would be a possibility?

Thank you

When you buy a computer with Windows, you get an OEM license. The license OEM Windows belong to the computer and not you and cannot be legally transferred to a new computer. If the computer license die with the computer or in the case where you are selling the computer the new owner will receive the license as well as it belongs to the computer.

-gan

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