cross posting to a minimal extent, by incident and accident, sorry.
Traveler, the word that Ultimate is required in order to make use of the RC
totalbackup, came via Paul at the Installation panel. He told me to refer
to line number two of the linked MS document. I did, and it clearly says
that total backup is available (only?) in Ultimate.

I did not ask for trialware Ultimate. That's what they sent us all.
If force feeding is not evident here, then the point is lost.
I only want my data back. If I have to pay now yet another premium price to
"upgrade" to an OS version I don't want, just to retreive my data, well,
then that's what I'll have to to do.

By misinformation and confusion---which can hardly be any 'accident', MS is
making money hand-over-my-ass. And everybody else's too! True?



"The Traveler" wrote:
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> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:16:00 -0700, Lowered Expectations
> <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
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> > "Anytime Upgrade" is what I'll eat if held hostage in this way.
> >
> >I do not think this is right at all in any form, by any stretch of any
> >imagination.
> >
> >Thank you for responding here.[/color]
>
> You must be cross posting... in any event, I do NOT believe that you
> need to buy Ultimate. All you need is either Premium, Business or
> Ultimate. As you realized, it doesn't work in "basic".
>
> In any event, you were beta testing RC1 (Ultimate), so it does make
> sense that the equivalent "gold" version is also Ultimate ;-)
>
> ______________________
>
> The Traveller
> Oceanside, California
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