Vista - Upgrade question

I confess, I have one PC in my house that is running on a pirated
version of XP. The other two are legit. I want to upgrade this
pirated XP OS to Vista, legally. My question is, if I purchase an
"upgrade" version of Vista, will it properly recognize the XP OS and
perform the upgrade, or will it somehow detect that it was an
unlicenced copy, and leave me with a useless box and $100 down the
crapper?

<nealr2000@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:67ace56c-e5f0-4153-966f-bb121d4eba69@xxxxxxNow what do you think? Do you think MS is that stupid to validate against
pirated copies of their OS? If you believe that, you should call your
primary physician and ask for another dose of drugs.

nealr2000@xxxxxx wrote:Download a burn a free copy of Linux and install that. Then you won't
have to worry about copyrite bull crap and costs you nothing.



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"Van Chocstraw" <boobooililililil@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:rv-dnbysmoLrHM_UnZ2dnUVZ_uSdnZ2d@xxxxxxWho the hell wants to use that piece of Crap Linux? To get real work done,
you need a real Operating System. Not something written by geeks for geeks
who can't get laid.

Hi,

You could try the method suggested by Rick Rogers or purchase the OEM
version (being your own system provider) instead of the upgrade version, if
you are not planning to move the install to another system in the future.

You could upgrade and replace components with the OEM version as many times
as you wish except to put the OS into another system.

Hope this helps and good luck.



<nealr2000@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:67ace56c-e5f0-4153-966f-bb121d4eba69@xxxxxx

Zimbabwe Jones wrote:If you're too stupid just say so.


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