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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. 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.