Hi,

What you buy is the key to unlock the added functionality of the upgrade.
You use your own disk to perform the upgrade, see:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...981033.mspx#EX

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"bob 9876" <bob9876@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> tuesday jan 29 2007.buying anew machine with vista on it.if you buy at
> same time an upgrade to vista version. what form will it take ?a dvd with
> upgrade onit already to install. no downloading needed? thanks