Buying Windows 7 64 bit

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

The Licence states that you must have built the machine for sale to a
third party,

I've never seen that in the Windows OEM license agreement, can you link
to or cut/paste from the section that says that?

and you have to install the OEM version with a OEM
Pre-installation Kit.

No, you don't - though the OPK can be helpful depending on your
scenario, it isn't required.

AFAIK you can't install OEM Windows 7 without it.

Sure you can, I do it all the time, and have been since the Win9x days.

http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/installation/downloads/Pages/windows_

7_opk.aspx


From that link:

The Windows OEM Preinstallation Kit (Windows OPK) is a set of tools
and documentation that support automated installation and
customization of the following Windows operating systems:

Not the use of the phrase "support the automated installation and
customization". I couldn't find anything on that page that says it is
required in any way.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.