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Many enthusiasts of the PC and those who have come to be (reluctantly?) reliant on Bill Gates' money grabber are probably waiting for Vista's release this coming January 30 with a bang.
Some of you have your eyes pretty much set on the upgrade versions of the editions coming out, huh? Remember the good ol' days when you could use your trusty upgrade key to start a completely new installation? All it took was an authentic installation CD of a previous version of Windows and voila! You don't even have to have the previous version installed to start the new OS setup. Now you remember? Well that is now all GONE.
Yep. The ol' misers of Redmond thought it would be best to stick to one machine licensing even after addressing armies of customers having quibbles about the difficulty they undertook to upgrade their machines and reactivate Windows XP every step of the way (well, not really, but hey, it feels like that sometimes).
Microsoft's Knowledge Base info (KB930985) specifically states that "you cannot use an upgrade key to perform a clean installation of Windows Vista." Why? Well that's because the all-new, all-powerful Vista has revealed its first Achilles' heel: compliance checking.
That said, it would be wise for all those customers hoping for a smooth upgrade from their old Windows to the new Vista to simply order a license to allow the user to make a clean installation. Maybe it's a tactic to get everyone to shell out money for the Ultimate edition, since it does not have this limitation. The editions that the limitation does apply for are:
- Home
- Home Premium
- Starter
- Home Premium 64-bit
- Home 64-bit
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well guys i recently got Vista Business edition for free (because i go to Penn State) and i must say doing a clean install is not bad at all because vista puts everything you had on your old computer into a folder named windows.old so you can go in there and take what ever you want from it. i had to do a clean install because i had windows media center 2005 and business does not support that so it was not a problem and this was not anything to get mad about. and yes like i said i do have vista
well guys i recently got Vista Business edition for free (because i go to Penn State) and i must say doing a clean install is not bad at all because vista puts everything you had on your old computer into a folder named windows.old so you can go in there and take what ever you want from it. i had to do a clean install because i had windows media center 2005 and business does not support that so it was not a problem and this was not anything to get mad about. and yes like i said i do have vista
well personally this wont effect me since i'll be getting ultimate. but that is kinda interesting that they did that.
Bill gates will be on the daily show tonight at 11 too to discuss vista.
Surely the following link indicate the various times when a clean install is possible and the fact that XPPro requires a clean install if installing Home or Home Premium.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradepaths.mspx