Windows 10: New machine; OS licensing; Office licensing : all just too scary

I really need to purchase a new machine (Machine 2 below). The easiest strategy will be to pass my current machine (Machine 1 below) to a family member as it stands and face all the costs associated with a new machine (OS licence, Office licence) - and in the context of new hardware these are hardly a matter for consideration. But the decision raises interesting questions over which I am utterly confused. 1 : Machine 1 is a Dell XPS purchased from Dell UK with Ubuntu pre-installed. (At the time this was the only way to get a decent spec, hi-capacity SSD drive and a non-touch screen.) I /dev/zero'd the drive and installed W10 using MediaCreationTool. Easy. Of course I got nagged for Activation and achieved this by visiting the MS site, inventing an ID and purchasing a licence against a credit card (for several hundreds of pounds Sterling). As soon as the transaction was completed Activation occurred. I never received anything in the way of a Product Key. 2 : I wish I could recall the exact nature of the transaction (i.e. step-by-step what was requested and how I responded). Could it have been through Microsoft Store? I just cannot recall. 3 : Recently this forum published a self-help procedure to identify one's own licence characteristics. (It seems to be a minefield.) I found that my licence was Retail (good!) but am dismayed that the Product Key is VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T which I gather is not unique or personal (though I have no idea what it actually is). 4 : I suspect from (3) above that I would not be able easily to transfer my licence form Machine 1 to a different machine but to be frank I have never seen a Fool's Guide to doing this that both simply and adequately describes the procedure for doing so. Can anybody recommend one? 5 : Every so often I wipe the machine entirely (i.e. /dev/zero the drive and install Windows 10 from scratch using the current MediaCreationTool). To my great relief Activation is always achieved after switching on WiFi. I deduce that in some way the machine is "recognised" as licensed and paid for. Clearly no confirming bytes are identified from the drive as it has been entirely wiped. What is it that is recognised? Some feature of the motherboard? 6 : Conversely, I have no matching confidence for re-installing Office 2019 on a newly refreshed drive and for this reason I have not attempted it. My Office 2019 licence is a single-machine licence. (I know. I don't know what I was thinking but there we are.) Will this too recognise the motherboard and assuming I follow the correct procedure, simply become Active after re-installation? 7 : Sorry to be droning on. If this is all too facile and obvious to any of you, then that is my hope! Now for Machine 2. Assuming I buy something with say W10 Pro pre-installed (probably another Dell) then, if I wipe it clean at some future date, will its Activation again be recognised (through the motherboard or whatever) as a machine that has already had installed a pukka licensed and activated OS? The capability to install a Ground Zero platform every so often is absolutely essential to me. 8 : If I am passing Machine 1 on as a running facility, I guess I will, leave Office 2019 on it and just grit my teeth and make a new Office purchase on Machine 2. But this time I will definitely go for a multiple-machine Office 365! Thank you! EditionWindows 10 Pro Version21H1 OS build19043.1165

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Transfer Office 365 license that came with machine to new owner

In March 2019 I bought a Trekstor Surfbook that came with a 2 year license for Office 365. This license is listed in my Microsoft account as being valid until March 2021.
Now I am selling the machine and I would like to transfer the Office 365 license to the new owner.
Can someone enlighten me how to achieve this?
Thanks a lot

 

Digital License after transfer license to new computer

Uninstalling a product key does not deactivate the license, there is actually no deactivation method. You would still need to contact support to actually invalidate the license on the old machine, so it can reactivate on the new machine.

Transferring the license is a step by step process.

First, you either remove the license from the machine by formatting it.

Install it on the new machine.

Contact chat support, then reactivate.

Where Digital license is handy is when you are still using the machine and reinstall Windows 10 and need to reactivate the license after a significant hardware change, such as a hard disk.

Learn more:

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/transfer-window...

 

Transfer Office 365 license that came with machine to new owner

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