WINDOWS 7 64 BITS OEM LICENSE LANGUAGE QUESTION

Hello to all,
My company have bought some HP desktops without any OS. This was because we have some OEM licenses for windows 7 professional 64 bits that we bought for a virtualization project that did not suceed and the licenses were never used.
We want to install those OEM licenses in the desktops but we found that the dvd that came with each license as the OS in Portuguese and we would like to install the OS in english.Since we do not want
to take any chance and not be 100% legal with Microsoft my first question is if we can use on those desktops the OEM license for windows 7 professional 64 bits Portuguese language that we have but have the desktops with windows 7 professional 64 bits English
language OS.That takes me to the second question that is if we can use one windows 7 professional 64 bits english dvd to setup the desktops.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best Rgs,
Ricardo Mendes

Hi,
As far as I know, in windows 7, only the Ultimate and Enterprise are support multiple language.
Windows 7 language packs are available for computers that are running Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Enterprise
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972813
And if you want to use OEM license, you need the OEM disk from the manufacturer to install windows.
Regards,
Ada Liu
TechNet Community Support

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