It's documented quite clearly in the activation documentation.

Yes, correct. But not documented for Windows 7. Your quote shows the date from January 2008 and belongs to Windows Server 2008 – long time before Windows 7.

And I don't think that a "technical description" from January 2008 for "Windows Server 2008" is a legal enhancement for a licence agreement for Windows 7 from October 2009.

If you read the article and the slmgr.vbs documentation, you'll note that slmgr -rearm is the same as sysprep /generalize.

Sorry, English is not my native language. But I understand this part a little bit different:

The /rearm process is also called by sysprep /generalize

"called by" and "is the same as" are very different meanings – for my understanding.

And - yes: Your second quote depends on Windows 7. But there I can not find any restriction of "only 3 rearms possible / allowed"

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It's documented quite clearly in the activation documentation.

Yes, correct. But not documented for Windows 7. Your quote shows the date from January 2008 and belongs to Windows Server 2008 – long time before Windows 7.

And I don't think that a "technical description" from January 2008 for "Windows Server 2008" is a legal enhancement for a licence agreement for Windows 7 from October 2009.

Windows 7 uses the same volume activation technology as Vista and Windows 2008 - the way it handles suspected piracy is a bit different, but activation is the same. Documentation for VA 2.0 applies to Windows 7/2008 R2 as well as Vista/2008, because they're the same in this regard.

No sarcasm or evil intent intended (is that grammatically correct?), but it feels like I've just witnessed the proceedings of a "Hair Splitters Convention".

You must not have a wealth of first-hand experience with the law .

You must not have a wealth of first-hand experience with the law .

LOL not any more than I have to - it makes my brain hurt every time a lawyer speaks.

To add to the conversation about the re-arms. I will say that it "may" be possible to re-arm / generalize more than three times BUT it may only be available if you use an unattend option. I tried to re-arm an image last week that was done with just a regular install, and it returned an error. I didn't think it would work anyways.