Hello

I have a friend who is going to buy a Tablet PC which comes with Windows
Vista Home Premium edition, but, due to work issues, she needs to be on a
Domain, so she is going to buy Windows Vista Ultimate, I was wondering, is
this edition suitable for her Tablet PC (since it's coming with Home Premium
Edition).

I think there should be no problems with the new Vista version but I rather
ask the experts.

Thank you!!!

The only issues that might come up are driver ones, which should not be an
issue between Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, IMHO. One interesting feature
with Vista is the upgrade option. You can go to MS and they will provide and
upgrade, for a fee of course, rather than buying a while copy. It's about
$150 from Home Premium to Ultimate IIRC...I looked into it for a tablet I
have. You might also just see if the OEM will provide the tablet with Vista
Business or Premium in the first place.

--
Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D29A9D6E-A9DB-4E46-BE99-0F26934EA6BA@microsoft.com...
> Hello
>
> I have a friend who is going to buy a Tablet PC which comes with Windows
> Vista Home Premium edition, but, due to work issues, she needs to be on a
> Domain, so she is going to buy Windows Vista Ultimate, I was wondering, is
> this edition suitable for her Tablet PC (since it's coming with Home
> Premium
> Edition).
>
> I think there should be no problems with the new Vista version but I
> rather
> ask the experts.
>
> Thank you!!!

Hello Sven and thank you for your answer. In fact the Tablet PC will come
with a OEM Vista Home Premium, not Business (if so there should be no problem
at all) but the fact is that my friend already bought Windows Vista Ultimate,
so the Upgrade Option is no longer an option hehe :) But thank you for your
advice. That means that, if I format the Tablet PC and install Windows Vista
Ultimate, the Tablet PC will still have its features (touchscreen, text
input, and so on) right?

Best regards

Daniel

"Sven" wrote:

> The only issues that might come up are driver ones, which should not be an
> issue between Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, IMHO. One interesting feature
> with Vista is the upgrade option. You can go to MS and they will provide and
> upgrade, for a fee of course, rather than buying a while copy. It's about
> $150 from Home Premium to Ultimate IIRC...I looked into it for a tablet I
> have. You might also just see if the OEM will provide the tablet with Vista
> Business or Premium in the first place.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP Mobile Devices
> "Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D29A9D6E-A9DB-4E46-BE99-0F26934EA6BA@microsoft.com...
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a friend who is going to buy a Tablet PC which comes with Windows
> > Vista Home Premium edition, but, due to work issues, she needs to be on a
> > Domain, so she is going to buy Windows Vista Ultimate, I was wondering, is
> > this edition suitable for her Tablet PC (since it's coming with Home
> > Premium
> > Edition).
> >
> > I think there should be no problems with the new Vista version but I
> > rather
> > ask the experts.
> >
> > Thank you!!!
>

I would say you need to visit the OEM website to ensure the drivers are
downloadable. They are surely the same drivers for the Tablet specific
items, but are currently buried in the restore CD, not in a stock copy of
Vista. You won't get all the features from a clean load of Vista, and you
probably don't have access to just the needed drivers on anything that came
with the laptop.

--
Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CEECD605-09A7-4BC0-B85C-CA3D4A8108B7@microsoft.com...
> Hello Sven and thank you for your answer. In fact the Tablet PC will come
> with a OEM Vista Home Premium, not Business (if so there should be no
> problem
> at all) but the fact is that my friend already bought Windows Vista
> Ultimate,
> so the Upgrade Option is no longer an option hehe :) But thank you for
> your
> advice. That means that, if I format the Tablet PC and install Windows
> Vista
> Ultimate, the Tablet PC will still have its features (touchscreen, text
> input, and so on) right?
>
> Best regards
>
> Daniel
>
> "Sven" wrote:
>
>> The only issues that might come up are driver ones, which should not be
>> an
>> issue between Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, IMHO. One interesting
>> feature
>> with Vista is the upgrade option. You can go to MS and they will provide
>> and
>> upgrade, for a fee of course, rather than buying a while copy. It's about
>> $150 from Home Premium to Ultimate IIRC...I looked into it for a tablet I
>> have. You might also just see if the OEM will provide the tablet with
>> Vista
>> Business or Premium in the first place.
>>
>> --
>> Sven
>> MVP Mobile Devices
>> "Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:D29A9D6E-A9DB-4E46-BE99-0F26934EA6BA@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I have a friend who is going to buy a Tablet PC which comes with
>> > Windows
>> > Vista Home Premium edition, but, due to work issues, she needs to be on
>> > a
>> > Domain, so she is going to buy Windows Vista Ultimate, I was wondering,
>> > is
>> > this edition suitable for her Tablet PC (since it's coming with Home
>> > Premium
>> > Edition).
>> >
>> > I think there should be no problems with the new Vista version but I
>> > rather
>> > ask the experts.
>> >
>> > Thank you!!!
>>

Hello Sven

I've recently checked the OEM of the Tablet PC and on the Drivers Section I
see that I can download all the drivers (Windows Vista drivers). Having a
clean installation of Vista and installing this drivers I think there should
be no problem right? Because I saw a friend of mine changing his XP Home to
XP Professional and downloaded the drivers for his notebook (in this case)
and everything worked out (that is my basis why it should be the same for the
Tablet PC)

Best regards, and thank you very much for your help

"Sven" wrote:

> I would say you need to visit the OEM website to ensure the drivers are
> downloadable. They are surely the same drivers for the Tablet specific
> items, but are currently buried in the restore CD, not in a stock copy of
> Vista. You won't get all the features from a clean load of Vista, and you
> probably don't have access to just the needed drivers on anything that came
> with the laptop.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP Mobile Devices
> "Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CEECD605-09A7-4BC0-B85C-CA3D4A8108B7@microsoft.com...
> > Hello Sven and thank you for your answer. In fact the Tablet PC will come
> > with a OEM Vista Home Premium, not Business (if so there should be no
> > problem
> > at all) but the fact is that my friend already bought Windows Vista
> > Ultimate,
> > so the Upgrade Option is no longer an option hehe :) But thank you for
> > your
> > advice. That means that, if I format the Tablet PC and install Windows
> > Vista
> > Ultimate, the Tablet PC will still have its features (touchscreen, text
> > input, and so on) right?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > "Sven" wrote:
> >
> >> The only issues that might come up are driver ones, which should not be
> >> an
> >> issue between Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, IMHO. One interesting
> >> feature
> >> with Vista is the upgrade option. You can go to MS and they will provide
> >> and
> >> upgrade, for a fee of course, rather than buying a while copy. It's about
> >> $150 from Home Premium to Ultimate IIRC...I looked into it for a tablet I
> >> have. You might also just see if the OEM will provide the tablet with
> >> Vista
> >> Business or Premium in the first place.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sven
> >> MVP Mobile Devices
> >> "Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:D29A9D6E-A9DB-4E46-BE99-0F26934EA6BA@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hello
> >> >
> >> > I have a friend who is going to buy a Tablet PC which comes with
> >> > Windows
> >> > Vista Home Premium edition, but, due to work issues, she needs to be on
> >> > a
> >> > Domain, so she is going to buy Windows Vista Ultimate, I was wondering,
> >> > is
> >> > this edition suitable for her Tablet PC (since it's coming with Home
> >> > Premium
> >> > Edition).
> >> >
> >> > I think there should be no problems with the new Vista version but I
> >> > rather
> >> > ask the experts.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you!!!
> >>
>

>> should be no problem right? <<

Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
different... so, short answer, no.

If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
restore disks... you will need them when you come back.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

I would disagree with Bev on this. If your tablet OEM provides drivers for
Vista on their web site, and the laptop is already running Vista, it should
be no issue to load a clean version of Vista (different flavor) and then add
the drivers. If you were to just upgrade, it would be even simpler, as the
hardware specific drivers would just remain in place. I understand you
already have the new full version of Vista to which you wish to upgrade.

If you had XP and wanted to go to Vista, I would not be as sure. But since
you are already running Vista, and the tablet drivers exist, and are proven,
and can be accessed, there is no reason they shouldn't work on a different
version of Vista. You will in fact find that most of the tablet functions
swill work right after install. The touch screen will likely function
normally. The drivers will likely be needed for things like assigning the
tablet specific buttons, and controlling what happens when you go into
tablet mode, i.e. default to portrait in tablet, and landscape in laptop,
for example.

Do however follow Bev's advice and make those restore CDs/DVDs that most
current systems provide the ability to do. They are priceless.


--
Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:uWJBskzcIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> should be no problem right? <<
>
> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
> different... so, short answer, no.
>
> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>

The Windows operating system, in this case Vista, is not really any
different than what already is there. What is different is that in certain
versions of Vista (like Ultimate) there are Tablet functionalities already
built in. Unlike Windows XP Pro, Tablet functionalities are already
included. In XP Pro, on a Tablet PC, you would have had the Tablet PC
Edition "superset" which ran on top of XP Pro.

If the machine already contains (check with the OEM) the proper hardware for
Tablet functionalities, such as the pen digitizer, then there should be no
problems.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:uWJBskzcIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> should be no problem right? <<
>
> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
> different... so, short answer, no.
>
> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>

Hello

I've read all your posts and I will follow Beverly's advice making restore
CD's, and then I will install Vista Ultimate on my friend's Tablet.

Thank you to Beverly, Sven and Chris for all your help :)

Best regards

Daniel

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:

> >> should be no problem right? <<
>
> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
> different... so, short answer, no.
>
> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>
>

It really should be fairly easy and straight-forward. It just takes a
pretty long time, so be patient and don't force it.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:475419C9-4666-4DDE-9ED0-F694B9976FD1@microsoft.com...
> Hello
>
> I've read all your posts and I will follow Beverly's advice making restore
> CD's, and then I will install Vista Ultimate on my friend's Tablet.
>
> Thank you to Beverly, Sven and Chris for all your help :)
>
> Best regards
>
> Daniel
>
> "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:
>
>> >> should be no problem right? <<
>>
>> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
>> different... so, short answer, no.
>>
>> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
>> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>>
>> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>>
>>
>>

Glad my incorrect post had the result of generating a full image backup ;-)

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]