So we were all led astray with the 'must upgrade from an installed eligible
OS' statements? If so, doesn't that make the Vista upgrade to Vista Trial
sort of a red herring?


Dale

"Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:5527EDAC-A946-4303-8F58-9F962EC8C943@microsoft.com...
> It may not be news for some folks around here but it really gets my goat
> when I go to the store and buy the Vista Home Premium edition upgrade
> because the box says something like needs windows 2k, or xp or vista to
> use this edition.
>
> Good enough, I have XP Pro on my computer so I buy it only to find out
> later that vista tells me you have the wrong edition, if you want to
> upgrade xp pro to vista then you need the vista business edition, not the
> home premium edition.
> Of course it gave me the option to do a fresh install (and I did) but that
> was NOT what *I* wanted to do.
>
> Had I wanted the business edition of vista then I would have bought that,
> but I didn't want that.
>
> Well......
>
> Back to reinstalling everything.
>
>