Okay, I should have said ...XP PRO's... and ...Vista HOME's...

-Frank

"Frankster" <Frank@spam2trash.com> wrote in message
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> Yessir, and, let's not forget XPs ability to join a Windows Domain and
> Vista's inability to do the same.
>
> -Frank
>
> "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:18E90183-5AFA-4B6B-9BAE-E7D51E0A64AF@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
>> news:exXUZqnRHHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> 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[/color]
>
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