My cousin ask me to buy a Vista from Malaysia then send it over to her in UK where she was studying. Then I heard from the salesman that Vista which bought in Malaysia only can be activate within Asia country as it come with country locked.

Izzit real? Can any 1 confirm as I need to post to her as soon as possible.

She don't want to get Vista in UK as it like double the price of Vista in Malaysia.

u can activate anywhere as long as it is legal. what u bought ? OEM?

Never heard of this problem before. People are selling in ebay and ship it all around the world.
Dont worry, sometimes salesman dont know what they are talking too.
Eg, i encounter a salesmans sales 533mhz ram can not pair with 667mhz. Pc wont boot. My friend besides is using the same combination too and his pc have been running for almost 1 year already.

I bought it from a German Reseller (OEM for Vista Ultimate and Home Premium). Its meant for the EU market but the key works fine and it even activated.

Had a bit of a problem later , Windows said it wasn't genuine and stuff like that. No matter how I reactivated it , it still says the same (Activation passes though). Finally , I had to call up Microsoft and get it sorted out . It was hassle free and my Vista is genuine once again (Maybe the seller could be right , but I doubt so)

Then let microsoft see your id card, say your malaysian buying malaysia product. Nothing wrong with that

Yes! Was planning to buy a Vista Home Premium OEM for my cousin.

OEM is supposingly to be brought together with a hardware and stick to the hardware ONLY. Other ways on usage of the OEM is still consider illegal even the software itself is legit

Really? Cause I got some price lists from Low Yat, some shop listed as OEM version.

Nope, it's not illegal if not a lot of us will be using illegal software. PS: I've got about 6 OSes in my house which are ALL OEM.

of course can...

You can, but depending on the package itself. If there's a promotion, Microsoft usually strict the activation to be done within Malaysia only, for example, the Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 promotion. If there's no promotion for the package, you can activate it anywhere all over the world when you got Internet.