I'm very surprised by this. DailyTech reports that they've tried it and it
works flawlessly. Not only are you able to do a clean install but you can
install the upgrade without having XP or any other legacy OS at all!

It's a little time consuming as you have to run the installer twice.
Although that's not a big issue as the full Vista installation took under
30mins on my machine so doing it twice is still way faster than even
installing XP alone.

MSFT couldn't have done that on purpose, could they? All along they've been
stressing the fact that (a) you cannot do a clean install, at least not with
x86 and (b) you will need a fully activated legacy OS to upgrade from.

"Breaker" wrote:
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> So glad to see the links here posting how you can make the upgrade
> version install Clean. Also got the same information in email today
> from the Windows Secrets newsletter.
>
> Will make it much more likely for me to buy Vista now that I can save
> over $150 and get the Ultimate Upgrade instead of the full version.
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