Re: Upgrading To Vista Question

Ringmaster wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:56:49 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:00:58 +0800, "Ryan Hayward"
<blackclouds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I currently have xp professional installed. Can I legally purchase the upgrade version
of vista home premium.

Certainly. However you can not use it to upgrade from XP Professional,
only from XP Home.


I wish to do a clean install.

You can not do that either. Unlike with XP, Vista upgrade disks don't
do clean installations.

Classic example of STUPID Microsoft strong arm marketing to get prior
customers to "over" upgrade.

I was in the same situation, I also have XP Pro. I too wished to
upgrade to XP Home Premium. Why? Because it had features more useful
to me than the business version which I ended up switching to.

The point that always zooms over the goofy fanboy crowd is prior to
Vista then were only two choices, the more common home version and the
pro version. Now with four choices you are forced to get what you
don't want. Worse, you end up losing features you did want. Business
version doesn't include the popular video features I actually wanted.
What is further annoying is if the business version is a "higher" up
the totem pole version then why does it exclude features that the home
premium version has? Simple answer, to try to force you into the most
expensive Ultimate version. Well, I didn't bite.

Actually, Mr. Ringmaster wrote Santa Claus a letter last year
and asked for Vista Ultimate for Christmas. Santa Claus did
not give him anything last year because Ringmaster was naughty
and not nice!
.

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