MICHAEL

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.
>>
>>