"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
news:exXUZqnRHHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> 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?[/color]


No. You can use XP Pro as the qualifying product to install Vista Home
Premium, it's just that you have to do a clean install of Home Premium
rather than an in-place upgrade. This is because XP Pro has features that
Vista Home Premium does not have, such as support for two processor sockets
and support for EFS. Basically if the version of Vista that you are
upgrading to results in a loss of functionality over the version of Windows
that you are currently running then you still qualify for the upgrade but
you must do a clean install.
--
Tom Porterfield