Is it legal to use the Edition to windows 7 Home premium, System Builder for my own personal use in computer I'm building?

Title says it all... I am doing only this one computer for me to use... I love Windows 7, do not want to move to 8, and Amazon sells only the System Builder of the present version.

Free legal advice is worth what you pay for it.

That said, you can read what Microsoft says about his license OEM System Builder for Windows 7 (it's different for Windows 8) and decide for yourself what you want to do.

http://www.Microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/Windows-licensing-for-personal-use.aspx#fBid=slELumQEE9Z

EDIT to add:

Further reading:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/what-microsoft-wont-tell-you-about-windows-7-licensing/1514 - particularly page 2, which is connected to the--> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/is-it-ok-to-use-oem-windows-on-your-own-pc-don ' t-ask-microsoft/1561

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