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I am using Vista Beta 2 build 5744 at the moment. Which is going to be the best way for me to update when Vista is released to the public. Will I purchase an OEM 64bit version of Home Premium and do a straight install of this, or will I have to reinstall my OEM version of XP first and purchase the Vista Home Premium 64 bit upgrade and install this. At the moment I cannot see me ever wanting all the extra's in Ultimate.
 
Well you can either get an OEM Vista copy and install straight away. You can get an upgrade copy and install the same as OEM but it will ask you for your cd/product key during the install. Or you can get a retail copy and install as normal.

The OEM and upgrade copy will both be restricted to the PC that they are first installed on where as the retail version can be transferred from machine to machine as long as it is only installed on 1 PC at a time.

Note: The upgrade copy will act the same as the retail copy if the copy of XP that it is upgrading from is also a retail copy.
 
Lysander said:
I don't understand, so you have to have XP installed and then do a clean install? Not sure how that works...
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I know as much as you do. I may call MS and find out what this means.

Burnsy
 
I know. it was more about this:

r1ch said:
This actually isn't true. I have got an email from a guy on the Microsoft Vista Ultimate team that says that you cannot boot directly from the Vista DVD. It will not ask you for the qualifying product CD. This doesn't happen anymore. You must actually have XP installed to perform an upgrade - install over the top or a clean install. Cerainly with the 32bit version anyway. This means that if you like to format your drive and reinstall every few months as some people like to - if you have purchased the upgrade edition of Vista you will have to install XP first before upgrading to Vista.
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I know. it was more about this:


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Originally Posted by r1ch

This actually isn't true. I have got an email from a guy on the Microsoft Vista Ultimate team that says that you cannot boot directly from the Vista DVD. It will not ask you for the qualifying product CD. This doesn't happen anymore. You must actually have XP installed to perform an upgrade - install over the top or a clean install. Cerainly with the 32bit version anyway. This means that if you like to format your drive and reinstall every few months as some people like to - if you have purchased the upgrade edition of Vista you will have to install XP first before upgrading to Vista.

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what the guy "R1ch" says is true, with an upgrade that's exactly what you have to do, install and validate XP then install Vista over the top, everytime you want to reinstall, ( or as someone on another post said "burn an image"
(though my hardware changes so often it never works for me )

I'm gona have to splash for the full retail for at least two of my four pcs (even though they all have legit copies of xp on them,) because I just can't be doing with having to reinstall two os's every flipping time something daft happens that system restore can't deal with!! It gets to be blurry expensive that way though!
 
From Connect via a mate, but i oviously dont have the key, Might no bother after readin gibbos post....just a few more days now
 
Dureth said:
The OEM and upgrade copy will both be restricted to the PC that they are first installed on where as the retail version can be transferred from machine to machine as long as it is only installed on 1 PC at a time.
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do you mean that there will be an online check everytime you use your pc? what is stopping 2 people going halves on a legit copy of xp and using it on seperate pcs? I'm not condoning this I am mearly asking about the practicalities vs the licencing laws...

can someone please explian this statement too:

"if you buy the oem it can Only can be used on a new PC once!"

does this mean you can only activate it once?
 
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I have just Bought a new Computer just before christmas with Windows XP Home OEM and got the windows vista upgrade card. If i buy the Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit & 64-Bit Upgrade Edition DVD - Retail. does this mean that i can install this over my copy of xp and if i wanted to change my motherboard a couple years down the line, would i need to install my old copy of xp home and then install vista.
 
morgan said:
do you mean that there will be an online check everytime you use your pc? what is stopping 2 people going halves on a legit copy of xp and using it on seperate pcs? I'm not condoning this I am mearly asking about the practicalities vs the licencing laws...

can someone please explian this statement too:

"if you buy the oem it can Only can be used on a new PC once!"

does this mean you can only activate it once?
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What it simply means it, you cannot transfer the oem to another machine where as retail you can.
Once you have reinstalled it you just simply reactivate it again on the same machine.
 
DanMc07 said:
What it simply means it, you cannot transfer the oem to another machine where as retail you can.
Once you have reinstalled it you just simply reactivate it again on the same machine.
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so how does microsoft know what machine it is installed on?
 
morgan said:
so how does microsoft know what machine it is installed on?
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They dont but they will probably have a limit on the amount of times you can activate it online, after that you have to phone them and tell them you're only reinstalling it on the same machine you bought it for.
 
what about the scenrio if you buy the oem today, then build a complete new system (hds etc) say a month later? If its only installed on one machine is that ok?
 
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