Re: Vista Ultimate Upgrade w/SP1

Dillon--

I wasn't aware of the possible inclusion of Win 98 in the packages for academic institutions Rick pointed out, and I'm admittedly confused as to why they would include anything to do with Win 98 SE or not unless there were a way to upgrade from it. Please let us know how it turns out.

Good luck,

CH


"Dillon Farmer" <dillonfarmer@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:enOEFyaPJHA.3936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Rick.

No help from the University but MS technical support (Escalation Dept.) phoned me back after I pointed this
out to them earlier today.

Apparently, they fear they will be swamped with similar queries/complaints and in a few days there will be a
solution on the www.theultimatesteal.co.uk (and other countries) web site.

As for my setup, I built a new machine a few days ago and put on a full edition of Win98 (Goes really fast :-) and was quite a nostalgic experience) in preparation for the upgrade. There's also a trusty XP machine and I don't want to lose this OS in the upgrade. I take your point about a clean install though. Thanks.

Dillon





"Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e$C%23JZaPJHA.4372@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Richie Hardwick" <richiehardwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9imsg49v2h0iebnbo790l9s92lol9o7ki1@xxxxxxxxxx
"Chad Harris" <CH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm surprised that "terms and conditions" indicate that you can use Win 98
as a qualifying OS, because I've seen nothing to indicate that you can use
any DOS-based version of Windows--including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows
98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition--or Windows NT (any
version) to upgrade to Vista.

You are absolutely correct.

As it applies to retail. This is not retail, this is a package for education institutions and different rules and conditions apply. Microsoft has long sponsored programs for colleges to distribute software to their students far cheaper than mainstream, and the rules are often quite different.

Dillon, I suspect you probably need to order the disk per the offer details as I don't know of any way of initiating the upgrade from within a Win98 system. While it may be a qualifying OS, it won't actually upgrade but rather it will be a clean installation. I would check with your University's technical folks for additional assistance, they may be more familiar with the program.

A second concern would be installing Vista on a Win98-era machine, it would likely be horribly unsuited for this. Likely to be way underpowered in terms of processor speed, memory capacity, hard drive capacity, and motherboard/bus speed issues.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com


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