Vista - vista anytime upgrade

Question,
I am running vista beta rc1. Is it possible to upgrade to a retail version
of vista using the anytime upgrade?

Thanks

Joe

NO


"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FD13E3D6-CBD6-4412-90B0-BD7A6B424EF6@microsoft.com...
> Question,
> I am running vista beta rc1. Is it possible to upgrade to a retail version
> of vista using the anytime upgrade?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe

Hi Joe,

No, as the RC versions are not qualifying products for upgrades. To upgrade
to the release product you'd need a full version of Vista Ultimate (the RC
keys were all Ultimate keys, and downgrades to versions of less
functionality are not supported). Anytime Upgrade can only be used to
upgrade the version of an already installed release (RTM) version.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD13E3D6-CBD6-4412-90B0-BD7A6B424EF6@microsoft.com...
> Question,
> I am running vista beta rc1. Is it possible to upgrade to a retail version
> of vista using the anytime upgrade?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe

ok. Thank you all for the help

Joe

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> No, as the RC versions are not qualifying products for upgrades. To upgrade
> to the release product you'd need a full version of Vista Ultimate (the RC
> keys were all Ultimate keys, and downgrades to versions of less
> functionality are not supported). Anytime Upgrade can only be used to
> upgrade the version of an already installed release (RTM) version.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FD13E3D6-CBD6-4412-90B0-BD7A6B424EF6@microsoft.com...
> > Question,
> > I am running vista beta rc1. Is it possible to upgrade to a retail version
> > of vista using the anytime upgrade?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joe
>
>