Vista Upgrade Matrix

Tyler Too writes "With six different versions of Vista due once it ships, figuring out an upgrade path can be confusing. Microsoft has tried to clear things up with a 4x6 matrix laying out your options. 'In short, users of XP Home can do an upgrade install to any of the four Vista versions. However, XP Pro users can only perform upgrade installs to Business or Ultimate.' And if you're not running a 32-bit version Windows XP, there's no upgrade path for you at all."

Comments

Matrix, eh?

[CRCulver]

There is only one person who can save us from Vista: Neo.

Re:Matrix, eh?

[smaerd]

Do not try to install the new file system. That is impossible. Only try to understand the truth.
What's the truth?
There is no new file system.

Upgrade Matrix Is Flawed

[Doomedsnowball]

I see they "conveniently" left out the boxes where you upgrade to linux instead.

Can't find my version

[Anonymous Coward]

I have XP-Pirated. To which Vista version should I upgrade?

Re:What???

[WilliamSChips]

If you have Gentoo, going to Vista would be a downgrade.

Smash my Vista?

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, will be camping out Best Buy the night before to get my copy.

Re:Smash my Vista?

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, will be camping out at the Pirate Bay a week before it is released to get my copy.

Obligatory

[squizzz]

Does it have something to do with this?

Re:What???

[$RANDOMLUSER]

No Gentoo upgrade path? :-)

Sure. Try:
emerge PureEvil

Re:I am accursed of god (or microsoft)

[isaacklinger]

XP Pro, XP Pro x64 and Windows 2000 users will still be able to purchase the "upgrade edition" of any version of Vista. They just won't be able to upgrade with their existing files and settings in place.

If they can't keep their files and settings, in what sense is it an upgrade? Price?

déjà vu

[neonprimetime]

Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: I had this operating system, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same OS?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Neo: What did they change?
Trinity: More OS versions.

Re:déjà vu

[x2A]

Oh my god, the Windows!!! They're locking us in!

Heh...

[teflaime]

I'm not upgrading to Vista until World of Warcraft REQUIRES it.

Thanks

[CtrlPhreak]

Now I know when I goto pirate the new latest version of windows I know which version to download to upgrade my XP Pro installation, Vista Ultimate. Yeah nothing to see here.