Perhaps interval between activations? They could flag on servers side as suspicious frequent activation request from same hardware.
What I really want to know is if the people activated with genuineticket, will remain activated after Anniversary Update It will not effect me as I have OEM
There's no reason for them not to remain activated. Only a change of hardware should cause people to lose activation at this point. With every big release there's always a little speculation, but the people casting doubt are often proven wrong.
fwiw I have changed HD to SDD on several machines and not lost activation. I've done cloned HD to SSD, backedup HDD to SSD, and a fresh install removing HDD and replacing with SDD. Everything activates fine. I think the moving target might be the best answer.
What if a HDD crashes and dies on you, which is not unheard of.. or you expand to newer storage drive after prices drop. MS has to have a BEFORE & AFTER change system to see how much/ what of the system has changed.
Let's hope this was a fluke, otherwise get ready to spend day on phone pleading/begging MS to let you have your activation back, they can't change the rules in the middle of the game can they, No you should be OK.
people are panicking to much....im sure in a few months DAZ or someone will have a activator that will fix issue of hardware swaps in case u cant get your legit key back.
Well, during the last 6 months I updated my BIOS, changed my SSD (restoring from a backup, not a sector-perfect clone) and now even bought a new graphics card. Still activated. So maybe it's also of importance how many things you change in one step or how much time passed by in between.
I had an MSI Cubi that came with Win7 Pro Oem Activated (bios has slic 2.1). Upgraded to Win10 Pro & Activated without issue (Digital Entitlement). I thought what the heck, might as well go with a clean install & UEFI. The MSI Cubi has a Win7 bios (1.4) for Legacy & UEFI (8.5) optimised for Win8/10. Flashed it, performed a clean install - Won't activate! After stuffing around for ages I checked the bios - no slic. Modded the UEFI bios with a slic table, flashed, boot into Windows, had a look - Activated.
possibly CPU and combo of another piece of hardware. Possibly CPU alone. But I've not changed JUST a Cpu in a long time lol, always mobo/cpu together. So unsure at this point.