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If I purchase a machine that is delivered with Home Premium as standard can I
use a Vista Business Upgrade disk (from Microsoft Action Pack) to upgrade to
Business version or is the upgrade only supposed to be for upgrading XP Pro
to Vista Business.
"Pilot21" <Pilot21@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AEB3C896-B1B7-4589-8641-621C733EF015@microsoft.com...
> If I purchase a machine that is delivered with Home Premium as standard
> can I
> use a Vista Business Upgrade disk (from Microsoft Action Pack) to upgrade
> to
> Business version or is the upgrade only supposed to be for upgrading XP
> Pro
> to Vista Business.
>
I upgraded from Premium that came on the laptop to Ultimate with no
problems.
That's very interesting in light of the fact that there appears to be other
threads that say you can't do that. Those threads imply you can only go from
Premium to Ultimate, so I guess those are wrong.
Many thanks for the info.
Mike
"Mr. Arnold" wrote:
>
> "Pilot21" <Pilot21@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AEB3C896-B1B7-4589-8641-621C733EF015@microsoft.com...
> > If I purchase a machine that is delivered with Home Premium as standard
> > can I
> > use a Vista Business Upgrade disk (from Microsoft Action Pack) to upgrade
> > to
> > Business version or is the upgrade only supposed to be for upgrading XP
> > Pro
> > to Vista Business.
> >
> I upgraded from Premium that came on the laptop to Ultimate with no
> problems.
>
>
You can not do an in-place-upgrade from Home Premium
to Business. You must do a custom clean install.
-Michael
* Pilot21:
> That's very interesting in light of the fact that there appears to be other
> threads that say you can't do that. Those threads imply you can only go from
> Premium to Ultimate, so I guess those are wrong.
>
> Many thanks for the info.
> Mike
>
> "Mr. Arnold" wrote:
>
>> "Pilot21" <Pilot21@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AEB3C896-B1B7-4589-8641-621C733EF015@microsoft.com...
>>> If I purchase a machine that is delivered with Home Premium as standard
>>> can I
>>> use a Vista Business Upgrade disk (from Microsoft Action Pack) to upgrade
>>> to
>>> Business version or is the upgrade only supposed to be for upgrading XP
>>> Pro
>>> to Vista Business.
>>>
>> I upgraded from Premium that came on the laptop to Ultimate with no
>> problems.
>>
>>
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