upgrade from beta

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i am using the vista beta can i buy the windows vista home premium upgrade
and just use that or do i need to reinstall windows xp to get the upgrade to
work
 
What version is your Beta?
If you have Beta Ultimate like most, you can not downgrade to Home Premium.
Also, the Beta is not a qualifying product for an upgrade.
Without a qualifying OS, you will need the full version and not an upgrade.
 
I'm using a Dell Laptop, originally XP Pro OEM, on which I installed RC1,
RC2, etc. Do I really have to reinstall XP, or will the upgrade editions
(Ultimate) accept my XP OEM CD as a qualifier? It doesn't seem that you
should lose your upgrade privelege just because you installed Beta versions...
 
My God - has MS got an unexpected nightmare on its hands. All I've read is
post after post about which version to get: full, upgrade, this or that. I
have a successful XP - Vista RC1 dual boot, and quite frankly, after all this
confusion, don't know which version to get. Check out Ebay. The OEM version
is all over the place at a savings. Or, what I was hoping, is to buy the
retail upgrade version, format my old Vista RC-1 partion, and boot up to XP,
and do a custom install of Vista. From there, you should be able to install
Vista on your newly formatted Vista partition - just like in the past.
That's my intentions. Will this work?
 
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