We knew what you meant. No prob.

"Frankster" <Frank@spam2trash.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, I should have said ...XP PRO's... and ...Vista HOME's...
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> -Frank
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> "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=darkred]
>>> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
>>> news:exXUZqnRHHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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