Mike is correct. You can purchase a full edition and select the upgrade
option in Setup as long as you purchase Vista Ultimate (the beta and RC's
were all Ultimate editions). Upgrade will be disabled if you purchase
anything less than Ultimate.

"sylviap" <sylviap@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What I'd like to know is when the new Vista OS is officially on the market
> will users of the Vista Beta be able to purchase the upgrade version to
> upgrade their beta version to a full working version of Vista? Or do we
> have
> to purchase the full-version Vista OS software of our choice after the
> June
> deadline for the beta version?
> Anyone who has any idea at all about this issue I'd appreciate it, because
> I
> bought a new computer at the end of August and found out 3 wks later that
> anyone who bought a new computer would be eligible for the Vista upgrade
> and
> we were told we'd qualify for the upgrade then when we got our email and
> went
> to apply for our upgrade we found out that any computer purchased AFTER
> October 2006 only would be eligible....so that really sucks...lol
> Anyway, thanks for any help anyone can provide.
>