I seem to remember reading that you can pay to upgrade your version of Vista at any time so if someone got Premium but later wanted some of the features of Ultimate they could get a new key and install the extra bits.
Is this how it works?
Will you be able to do this with an OEM DVD?
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sure you can. Every vista install dvd, eighter its a retail, upgrade or oem version, contains the same wim image that is copied to the disk, and extracted.
(by the way, an in place upgrade is actually just a clean install. Your pervious settings/documents are copied to a temp folder before the image is copied to disk and extrcated. After that, the contents of the temp folder are copied to the new intall base )The technology that is vista version dependable, is "opened or unlocked if you will" by the key given during install.
After intallling a vista version, you can use windows anytime upgrade, to upgrade/downgrade your windows install.
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prog_dotnet wrote:
After intallling a vista version, you can use windows anytime upgrade, to upgrade/downgrade your windows install.
OK, I couldn't remember that it was called Anytime Upgrade.
I'm still not sure about the OEM versions though because the Microsoft FAQ doesn't say anything specific about those.
I'm assuming it will still work.
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