How long the license key latest for Windows Vista

The other day a person allegedly from Microsoft phoned to tell me that my activation license has expired and that my computer has been damaged by a virus that kept sending error messages. As my license has expired, they were not able to fix the problem and I had to pay £70.00 to renew and to help more of them, otherwise my PC was getting more slower and slower all day. I hung up. But it got me thinking, it was a spam?

All the Licenses for Windows retail (including upgrades) are transferable to the new machines (in the case of an upgrade it will still a qualifications base on the new machine license) and are actually eternal - at least until there is no material more around which it will run.

OEM licenses are locked to the first machine on which they are turned on - but finally done as the motherboard (and the replacements of vices).

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