It's legal. Although I did take my vista home premium retail key and put it on my laptop to get rid of all the HP bloatware. The key isn't used on any other computers since I reverted the one it was on back to XP so I guess it's legal.
legal. came with the laptop
luckily all my pc's are pre built (well luckily in the sense i get a free os).
sometimes i borrow an os "from a friend" to test
I have Windows Xp Professional Sp3, Windows Xp Pro nLite Edition, Windows Professional Sp2 64bit,
Windows Vista Home Premium nLite Edition, Windows Vista Red Edition, Windows 2008 Server. oh and Windows NT.
Currently running on my computer, Windows Vista 64bit Ultimate... Fully Activated
Provide a link to a EULA that describes this requirement please. Like someone else said, you purchase Vista - retail, who slaps the sticker on the pc? Stickers on brand new pcs are shipped that way out of convenience ... especially since most (not all) new computers ship with restore partitions rather than restore disks.