Hello John and John,
So while Windows Anytime Upgrade will upgrade Windows Vista Business to
Windows Vista Ultimate it will not upgrade volume media.
You will need to use different media for WAU as well. It will not be the
same media that ships as volume media.
For example if you had a Retail installation of Windows Vista Business
edition, you could upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate. It would be a full
upgrade process but it would retain your settings and installed
applications.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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<Everything I have read about the Anytime upgrade, it is an in place
upgrade
<and you should not lose any of your current efforts. Not having seen any
<testing of said process, no guarantees.
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<message <> Buying a new key wouldn't be a problem; I'm just not wanting to have to
<> re-install the OS using a different DVD. If I'm going to have to go to
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<> trouble, I'm better of waiting until Ultimate is available.
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<>> Without an Anytime Upgrade key, difficult to impossible. You'll
probably
<>> have to buy that key as I doubt you'll just be able to stick in an
<>> Ultimate
<>> DVD and upgrade your volume license copy.
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<>> <>> > Being a volume license customer, I've downloaded Vista Business
Edition
<>> > to
<>> > install. However, I'm eventually going to want to run the Ultimate
<>> > Edition--which, as far as I can tell, isn't available to anyone right
<>> > now
<>> > (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
<>> >
<>> > I've read that MS designed Vista to be easily upgradable from one
<>> > edition
<>> > to
<>> > another. In fact, I heard that all the "bits" for every version are on
<>> > each
<>> > DVD (again, someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
<>> >
<>> > So my question is this... If I install the Business Edition now, how
<>> > hard
<>> > will it be to bump up to Ultimate Edition once it's available?
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