No we were mislead to believe that any flavor of XP could be upgraded using
the upgrade vista dvd. If the box on home premium stated, needs xp home
edition to upgrade then I would understand it and have been ready for it and
been able to make up my own mind whether or not I wanted to do a fresh
install or keep all of my old settings and programs.

But the vista upgrade box only states, needs 2k, or "XP" or vista to
upgrade. Not XP home


"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
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> 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...[color=green]
>> 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.
>>
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