Please be certain you know how to properly "use" the anytime upgrade and
that you back it up (in other words - copy the ****ed thing) to multiple
different media. This can be DVD's, external USB drives, a network drive -
whatever.

Don't come back here whining when you lose the upgrade because you have to
reinstall your operating system - and you find that you can't locate/use a
defective backup of the anytime upgrade. Back it up and test the backup to
be certain it is competent.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:84E9908C-902F-4C6F-B884-516D68A3A9A8@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>
> Thank you for calm, good words, DP.
>
> No, I can't/won't send my disks out to a stranger.
> The matter is now laid out for discussion. I'm not a very level-headed
> writer today, being this upset with anger at Microsoft for their...flub?
>
> It's the feeling that yes, all the paranoid rants I've read about MS in
> years past:
> why, they're true! (so it seems).
>
> I will pay, I guess I must, to have Ultimate as an "Anytime" upgrade.
> That's sort of funny: "Anytime Upgrade" in this case means: "BUY it or you
> won't have anything of your PiTiful Prior files and data" (insert Mad Dr.
> Gates cackle, I joke)
> _____
>
> versed as commentary for this thread:
>
> In days of old The Robber, bold
> held up the populace!
> He stopped the Stage, and to enrage
> snatched your lady's necklace!
>
> And yet, today, in modern ways
> The Thief reminds of old:
> he rubs us hard with a Friction
> and leaves every body cold!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "DP" wrote:
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>>
>> Perhaps a reader here who has the requisite version would volunteer to
>> try
>> to retrieve your data if you send them CDs (that's if you want to entrust
>> your data to a complete stranger).
>>
>> One other point, though I don't expect this to be terrific news for you.
>> As
>> I understand the "anytime upgrade" you're not going to have to pay the
>> full
>> cost of an ADDITIONAL version of Vista. You will just have to pay an
>> upgrade
>> cost. I don't know what those costs are, but it's not like you'll have to
>> buy an additional licensed version. You'd just be upgrading your current
>> version.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote
>> in message news:FC6AB26E-9DAB-4CB1-977C-019B4DDD22D6@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > Pardon, please this rant. First: thanks to the gents here who have
>> > already
>> > answered my earlier questions.
>> >
>> > The results of the answers are not encouraging me to calm down.
>> > Oh well.
>> >
>> > --The Problem: I (and how many others?) was on the Vista beta and
>> > RC1/2
>> > program.
>> >
>> > Near the end of the trial period I looked into purchase options.
>> > Microsoft told me/us here:
>> > [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/preview.mspx[/url]
>> > and elsewhere, that all that we need do was MAKE the backup while RC1
>> > was
>> > still viable (I did that), and then buy and install one's own preferred
>> > Vista.
>> >
>> > ALL I was told to do was make a total back up, choose and buy a Vista
>> > version.
>> > I opted for Home Basic.
>> >
>> > I cannot put my old settings, files or folders into the new OS.
>> > Period.
>> >
>> > This is wrong of Microsoft. You have locked me out from my data.
>> > Microsoft told us to make backup before installing the clean, paid-for
>> > Vista.
>> > They NEVER told me that my backup would be completely useless.
>> > And furthermore, even though I'd now just like to get back to XP (which
>> > is
>> > not so evil as this Vista-Thing), I cannot put my RC1 backup of data
>> > into
>> > an
>> > XP install.
>> >
>> > So I'm screwed. I paid for Vista. I can't have my data back unless I
>> > get
>> > (am told elswhere here) Ultimate or something near that.
>> >
>> > Phooey. If anyone has a solution short of suicide of the user, please
>> > tell.
>> > WHAT were they thinking????
>> >
>> > A user, typical, not savvy, reads and believes the public information
>> > of
>> > the
>> > link above.
>> > The link DOES not tell the user that they can't save their old data to
>> > the
>> > new OS via disk. It only speaks of "Easy Transfer" between two
>> > computers.
>> >
>> > I don't have two computers, anyway. I don't even have the one
>> > computer
>> > that I had before the RC1 timeout. I have nothing. I've lost all my
>> > data---until, it seems, I knuckle under and pay for Ultimate (or will
>> > Home
>> > Premium do the "trick").
>> >
>> > A rant ends. I'm spent. Please help me? There must be thousands of
>> > others
>> > like me today, tearing their hair in regret at ever, ever leaving XP.
>> >
>> > I have been a Windows user since 1995. You'd think I'd have learned
>> > something about it by now. Finally I have learned. Very sorry here.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > That's a boondoggle lie of gargantuan proportions.
>> > Microsoft has ruined me by locking me out of my own computer.
>> >
>> > This deserves a new thread. It is such an literally incredible bit of
>> > nonsense;
>> > ANYONE going from any of the trialware Vista to paid-version Vista
>> > would
>> > naturally expect to be able to move their data over to the new OS via
>> > disks.
>> >
>> > I can't believe this.
>> >
>> > ----------------
>> > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
>> > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
>> > "I
>> > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
>> > this
>> > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
>> > then
>> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>> >
>> > [url]http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=fc6ab26e-9dab-4cb1-977c-019b4ddd22d6&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general[/url][/color]
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