Tavish :
Yes its legal and it activates on my desktop or my other laptop with no dramas
I just don't know why it won't activate on the win 8 laptop
Could there be something in the laptop itself from stopping win 7 activating?
Um.. if you already activated on different computers it's not legal. The second part of my question was "AND HAS NOT BEEN USED YET" which is pretty important.
One code per system. It's probably not activating because it was used already.
It would be like selling a car to 3 people, collecting the money from all of them and two of them don't actually get the car. You can say the car is legal to own since it was yours and not stolen, but once you try to sell to more than one person, that's fraud.