#Parallels desktop 12 for mac oem install#

And he didnвЂ™t want to have to re-install several dozen applications, not to mention hundreds of PC settings, on a fresh install of Windows XP. He bought a new Macbook Pro, and since he had a considerable investment in Windows versions of applications like Adobe CS2, he did not want to have to buy new versions (Adobe doesnвЂ™t offer upgrades from CS2 to the current CS). I should stress that as he and I understand the license rules, he was required to buy a second, new, вЂњfullвЂќ (non-OEM) version of XP, which he did. Summary: After spending 4+ hours on phone вЂsupportвЂ™ with Microsoft (I know because I tried to help him communicate the problem to no avail), a friend recently discovered the trick to moving his laptop Windows XP Pro (an OEM version provided by the laptop maker) over to a Parallels virtual machine - WITH all applications, settings, data intact. Activerecord (2) apple (2) blog (2) bootstrap (2) customer satisfaction (1) email (2) hacks (5) heroku (12) humor (7) length (1) loyalmobs (1) mac (4) microsoft (2) migrate (1) outsource (1) persistence (1) phone extension (1) popover (1) postgres (3) practice management (2) rails (16) review (9) roast (1) rspec (4) ruby (3) secondary dns (1) settings.yml (1) SSL (1) stock vector artwork (1) subdomains (1) support (1) tea (1) testing (3) texting (1) time zone format (1) twilio audio cache (1) twimlet (1) twitter bootcamp (1) united airlines (1) Voxeo (1) website (1) Western Digital (1) white water rafting (1) wordpress (2) zerigo (1) Archives

Parallels desktop 12 for mac oem