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System Locked Pre-installation (SLP), also referred to as OEM Activation, is a product activation procedure for Microsoft Windows used by major OEMs of laptops and pre-built PCs wherein a Windows product key is added and locked to the machine's firmware before mass distribution. SLP product keys cannot be moved to other machines.
HP Service Activator was originally developed in 2000 as an Internet Data Center solution in Spain. In 2001, it transitioned to HP Service Activator under the purview of the HP Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) group within the Consulting & Integration organization (now under Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Communications Technology Group).
In Windows 7 and later, significant hardware changes (e.g. motherboard) may require a re-activation. In Windows 10 and 11, a user can run the Activation Troubleshooter if the user has changed hardware on their device recently. If the hardware has changed again after activation, they must wait 30 days before running the troubleshooter again.
The bundling of Microsoft Windows is the installation of Microsoft Windows in computers before their purchase. Microsoft encourages original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of personal computers to include Windows licenses with their products, and agreements between Microsoft and OEMs have undergone antitrust scrutiny.
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. [10] It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the ...
Inventec sells to HP, Dell, and Lenovo Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP Clevo and Tongfang sell to different laptop manufacturers like Digital Storm , Eluktronics, Eurocom, Metabox, Sager, Schenker, System76 , XMG, etc.
[1] [3] [22] [23] Microsoft made upgrade SKUs of Windows 7 for selected editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. The difference between these SKUs and full SKUs of Windows 7 is their lower price and proof of license ownership of a qualifying previous version of Windows. Same restrictions on in-place upgrading applies to these SKUs as well. [24]
Supply chain pyramid. An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another company.However, the term is ambiguous, with several other common meanings: an OEM can be the maker of a system that includes other companies' subsystems, an end-product producer, an automotive part that is manufactured by the same company that produced ...