"planetearth" wrote:
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> My friend got an excellent deal on the FULL Vista Business CD when CompUSA
> was going out of sale. Since then, he bought a new Dell laptop with Vista
> Home Premium on it, and just wants to *upgrade* to Vista Business.
> He does NOT want to wipe Home Premium to replace it with Business, since the
> laptop has all the drivers and MS Works (which he wants to upgrade to Office
> Standard 2007 using the "upgrade" version).
> Can he use the full version of Vista Business to just upgrade Vista Home
> premium? As I recall, this wasn't always an option with older versions of
> Windows: if you had the "full" version on CD, you couldn't upgrade from it;
> you could only wipe and replace.
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
Hi
That would be a downgrade you can not downgrade from Home Premium to
Business .
Home Permium has to be upgraded to Ultimate !!
If you want Business you have to clean install it .
To confirm this put the Business DVD in while you are in windows Premium and
try to install it you will see the upgrade option is grad out .
Upgrade path is Premium to Ultimate
Business to Ultimate
Home Basic can be upgraded to Business or Premium or Ultimate .
Do a web search you will see .
{And i do not think MSWorks is a valid upgrade path to Office 2007
with a {upgrade disk}
I think it has to be something like Office 2000 or 2003
i do not know this for a fact}
Other people may have there ideas on this part !!
Good Luck