$49 Home Premium Family Discount question

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I see that MS is selling 2 copies of VIsta Home Premium for $49.99 each for
purchasers of VIsta Ultimate. Does the version of Ultimate dictate which
version of Home you get? i.e. if I buy the Ultimate upgrade, are the Home
versions upgradess also? And vice versa, if I buy the Full Ultimate, are the
home versions Full versions?
 
Chad, there is no difference between retail dvd's, upgrade edition or full
is determined by the product key. If there is no diff between dvd's, why
are you saying that the tools are not available? All retail dvd's being the
same, all will boot the computer and all have the full set of tools. Are
you confusing the retail dvd's with the volume license dvd's which may be
another story?
 
Here's your answer.  This is from Nick White,
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I just checked a moment ago and scrolled down the entire blog without seeing him
answer the same question that is there also:
Does the version of Ultimate dictate which version of Home you get?  i.e. if I
buy the Ultimate upgrade, are the Home versions upgradess also?  And vice >
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versa, if I buy the Full Ultimate, are the home versions Full versions?
 
That is the more important question anyway. My guess is that you get
upgrade VHP's with an upgrade Ultimate and full VHP with a full Ultimate
purchase, but I'm just making a WAG.
 
That is the more important question anyway. My guess is that you get
upgrade VHP's with an upgrade Ultimate and full VHP with a full Ultimate
purchase, but I'm just making a WAG.
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"Hugh Wyn Griffith" wrote
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That would seem to be the reasonable conclusion.
 
LOL. Except that it appears wrong. According to another poster, the two
VHPs are upgrade edition keys.
 
No-- I wasn't confusing them. If this is so, I'm wrong then about their
not being access to the Win RE tools on an upgrade if it's bootable.

I'm still not happy about the requirement to load and activate the legacy
DVD when the easy alternative would have been one George Ou suggested in his
article.

CH
 
Colin Barnhorst said:
LOL. Except that it appears wrong. According to another poster, the two
VHPs are upgrade edition keys.
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Are you talking about smartie's post. I didn't catch that part. Let me
see. The download was an upgrade edition but it didn't specify if he bought
an upgrade Ultimate or the full version, but alas it might very well be only
an upgrade, and from one perspective it makes sense since it is to help a
family with more than one PC move to Vista, which implies those PC's already
have a qualifying OS. Sigh ... oh what tangled webs we weave.
 
Exactly. It would be easy to require running a tool on each of the other
computers to be sure that the installed Windows even qualifies. Or, simply
charge $79.95 for a full edition license.
 
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