To answer the other question, please read the Vista EULA. When you use an
upgrade edition license you must supercede another license that is eligible
for upgrade to Vista. Usually it is the OEM license for the software that
is already installed on the computer. Once that license is superceded it
may not be used again. Period.
However, there is no requirement to supercede the OEM license if the user
owns a different license that is also eligible for upgrade to Vista and
wishes to assign that license to be the one superceded. This comes into
play when the user wants to do a parallel installation of Vista (dual boot)
so he can continue to use the OEM copy as well.
So what happens to the OEM license depends on the user. If it is the only
license available to be superceded then it is the one that goes kaput.
"planetearth" <planetearth@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8309212E-528F-42C8-AE53-10E14E9420AC@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hmmm...now I'm a bit confused.
> First, I just found out the CD my friend has is a Vista Business *Upgrade*
> CD. I thought he had the FULL version CD, but he only has the UPGRADE CD.
> However, from what I thought I understood here, Vista Business is not an
> upgrade option from Vista Home Premium, because of some of the software on
> Home Premium.
> (I'm trying not to confuse "license" with "software", but if he has the
> CD,
> they're pretty much one and the same. He didn't just buy a license to
> upgrade--he bought the upgrade software CD itself.)
> So, can he *upgrade* Vista Home Premium to Vista Business?
> If he *can't* upgrade and decides to buy the FULL version (for a clean
> install), what happens to the *license* for the copy of Vista Home Premium
> that came with the new Dell laptop? I'm assuming it would no longer be
> used
> (unless someone restored the laptop from a restore CD made before wiping
> the
> drive).
> Thanks again for all your help--I'm just trying to get this straight so I
> can tell him.
>
> Steve
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Don't confuse upgrading the software with upgrading the license.
>> Upgrading
>> the license means buying an upgrade edition of Vista and using it to
>> replace
>> the existing Windows with the upgrade edition. That can be done to
>> replace
>> Vista Home Premium with Vista Business but you still cannot upgrade the
>> software (keep your apps and files in place). Upgrading between Vista
>> Home
>> editions and Vista Business is one of those cases where you have to do a
>> custom installation. However, that doesn't matter since your copy of
>> Vista
>> Business is a standard license rather than an upgrade.
>>
>> "planetearth" <planetearth@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:3A7A8CA4-AF6A-4C06-8270-309345B15146@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > Thanks, Jerry.
>> > According to MS, "Microsoft Works 6.0–10 [and] Microsoft Works suite
>> > 2000–2006 or later" are qualifying products for upgrade to Office
>> > Standard
>> > 2007.
>> > I wouldn't have thought so either, and I was going to ask in another
>> > newsgroup, just to be sure.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > "jerryw4386" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "planetearth" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > 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
>>