A Cajun-Asian View

A coworker was installing Windows 2003 R2 Server OEM 64-bit onto a server. According to Microsoft, you are allowed 4 Windows virtual servers. He needed to have Windows 2003 R2 Server OEM 32-bit (probably for some software that doesn't work in a 64-bit environment), so he was going to install it in a virtual server. Surprise, the license key for the 64-bit version does not work for the 32-bit version, so he calls up Microsoft support to ask how to setup his, according to them, allowed 4 virtual servers with a different version of windows.

Their answer (paraphrased): Find any key to install the OEM 32-bit version in the virtual system, then call the activation center to tell them that he's doing this.

That is kind of amazing... They're basically telling him to pirate a key and tell them.