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"Original Equipment Manufacturer"
So I think it means that it is the version given to computer manufacturers to distribute with their computers. As opposed to non-OEM, which is the version people buy in the store from software resellers.
If Windows came with your PC, it is an OEM version. If you bought it separately, it is just a normal piece of software.
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With our extreme gelatinous apology,
We beg to inform your Imperial Majesty,
Unto whom be dominion and power and glory,
There still remains that strange precipitate
Which has the quality to resist
Our oldest and most trusted catalyst.
It is a substance we cannot cremate
By temperatures known to our Laboratory.
~ E.J. Pratt
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