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Vista Upgrade Matrix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-linux-is-fragmented dept.

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."

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  1. I am accursed of god (or microsoft) by way2trivial · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought it would be NEAT to put XP64 on my newest workstation

    I have since decided it was a mistake

    I was sOOOOoo looking forward to escaping this bastardized ostracized (did I mention I also owned a ME laptop at onew point) dark stepchild OS of microsofts by upping it to vista...

    now apparently, I can't even do that

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  2. More Money for us! by Kranfer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This Matrix also seems to say that if you spent the extra money in the past for the professional software you MUST pay more again in the future. I don't like that.

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  3. Okay ... but what's the difference? by powerlord · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay, I'm a geek and work in technology. I run WinXP Pro since I have a Domain at home (Samba 3), and it lets me play games and do work (yes, I also have another 2 machines runing Linux, and an OS X machine, its your typical 'mixed' development environment).

    I see that they I can buy any upgrade copy and do a clean install (and if I upgraded I would go this route regardless), but has MS published anywhere what the differences between the different 'products' (and I use the term loosely), are?

    With XP Home/Pro there were obvious descriptions of what parts were missing/added (depending on your point of view).

    I haven't seen that (or don't remember seeing that), for the various flavours of Vista yet.

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  4. HD space. by marcovje · · Score: 4, Interesting


    I ran the check tool from microsoft, and the machine passed all test except for the HD test.

    It seems it requires all required space to be already _free_ on the machine (so that increases the requirement with the size of your current installation), and on the primary partition.

  5. Re:Some slight FUD in the summary... by jawtheshark · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it does seem backwards that someone who paid more for XP pro has to lose all their files while XP home users do not.

    Perhaps because a Pro user would know what "backup" means? Home users are at the low end of the food chain, you don't expect anything of them. A Pro user knows that an upgrade is a bad thing and will upgrade and reinstall clean.

    I've never seen an "Upgrade" of a Windows system go "cleanly". The only way to be sure is to install from scratch, or go Linux ;-)

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