Hello,
I've been beta testing and as you can appreciate, when this happens the activations kind of go through the roof and you could find yourself in a bit of trouble with the Norton Policy of Activations & Limitations Dept. (Pure factorial Dept) I have recently upgraded probably about 94% of my hardware and it isn't the original system I was using when I first registered NIS2013. Although, hit is still registered as the same PC within Norton Management. This hasn't changed. But I am kind of panicking slightly because I cannot tell you how many times I have activated. 
I got fed up with limitations of software, I shall rephrase that, lack of software updates because MS decided to keep Windows 8.1 close to their chest. Was they afraid that somebody would find a damming security hole in their Windows flagship. I've just popped back to Windows 8 Pro and won't be updating to 8.1 until probably April 2014 because it'll take other developers at least 6 months for all the software developers to catch up with Windows 8.1... Alas not all as there are drivers available now for Windows 8.1.
1. What happens if I go over the limitation (Panic)
2. Will it ask me to buy a new key. (I'll just pop to PC world and buy a new copy, this is a cheaper alternative)
3. Norton Management still not compatible with Windows 8.1
Thanks