Installing Windows 7 OEM on Maverick

Apple Store advised me to get a Windows 7 OEM 64 bit disc for my 2013 macbook pro:
http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Premium-System-Builder-Packaging/dp/B00H09BB16/ref =sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1393131478&sr=1-1&keywords=windows+7 . This is a generic OEM (not Dell, etc.)
I am using bootcamp, yet it won't install, and I end up with a black screen saying "No hardware detected."
An apple-care advisor later told me that bootcamp doesn't support OEM's at all.
But I have read of people installing Windows 7 on bootcamp using OEM disks throughout the Apple Forums.
There is also good feedback on installing Windows 7 on parallels, but I plan to use Windows for heavy gaming and game design, and I was advised against parallels for this purpose.
I'd love some feedback and advice on how best to install Windows 7.

Apple’s Genius Bar looked at the computer and the Bootcamp partition and said it was a Microsoft issue—and to call their customer support. Apple, after endorsing the Bootcamp and Windows 7 option enthusiastically is now saying, that it’s a 50-50 proposition that Windows works on Maverick and MacBook.
Microsoft says it’s a Bootcamp problem.
When I try to repartition with Bootcamp, it's saying there is no driver.
Anyone want to weigh in?
Is it merely a dud disk (that we paid full price for on Amazon—that is not a bootleg of any sort?
Is it worth investing in another disk?

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Geo94 wrote:
I am trying to install windows 7 on my iMac using Parallels 8 desktop for mac so i can use microsoft office 2010. i know there is a mac version that is the same, but my college professor wants me to use the windows version becaus they have diferrent xml coding.
Utter nonsense.
trying to save money i got the oem version of windows 7. is there anything special that i need to do for installing windows 7 oem onto my imac using parallels?
Just use the defaults. Windows 7 is very slow and really RAM-hungry. You will need 8 GB of RAM on your Mac because Windows 7 needs 2 GB all by itself. Even with that, it runs twice as slow as Windows XP.
If you've already spent money, there isn't much you can do at this point. I suggest using Apple Pages and, when you are ready to submit something to your professor, export it as a Word document and then re-save that Word document as a Word XML doc. I don't know why Pages doesn't export in docx format. It is built into the operating system. I even have a little utility that will save your clipboard directly to docx. You can download a fully-functional demo from: http://www.etresoft.com/pastefiler
There are many other utilities that can do the same, including Office 2011 itself. I prefer Pages because it supports modern OS X technologies and is much faster and easier to use than Word, but Pages only exports to DOC, not DOCX. Word is better if you are doing really sophisticated document, but it costs a fair amount money.
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Hello
I have an MacBook Air and would like to install and run Windows 7 (64 bit) in stead of Mavericks. The have been happy to run Mac OS X on my Mac but now there are more meaning in to run Windows because there are programs that we runs on my work that I can´t run under Mac OS X. Microsoft Office is better on Windows than Mac and I will also like to program so I will install Visual Studio Express.
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I don't think the OEM disc is the problem although I cannot be 100% sure. Please let me explain:
I initially installed XP-Pro using an OEM disc, way back in 2006 - worked fine back then - installing XP in Parallels, VMware Fusion, and finally BootCamp when ever it was that it came out of Beta.
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