What about your question led me not to understand it Barry was your use of
the English language to form it.
The answer to that question is easy. If you get your hands on a retail DVD
YES. On the DVD you get retail you'll be able to upgrade from versions
below Vista Ultimate to versions with more features. They will have keys
that can be unlocked by paying the appropriate premium. It's your job if
you buy a computer from one of the OEM named partners to check and see if
you can get the OS on a DVD. Most people didn't do much of a job of that
during the reign of XP--those of us who have helped with hundreds of
recoveries of no boot BSODs have gotten a good idea of that.
As you can see from tons of sites on the web, and an OEM partner site you
go to, there will be different upgrade paths with Vista for EDITIONS which
is what you're talking about available also from OEM preloads apparently.
Check them out. I think much of this is still in a work in progress.
I have a tip for you though--that goes to the difference between being
streetwise and a real chump.
Since new computer fever is in the air, or what I consider much smarter,
building your own new computer if it's a desktop, I wouldn't pay a cent to
an OEM without insisting you get a Vista DVD. Dell is apparantely taking a
new step to ensure every purchaser gets one. From the Dell blog in the last
10 days:
http://www.direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2006/10/17/3132.aspx
"Also, though this been in the works for some time before now, it's now
official. For U.S. consumer and small business customers, all systems will
now ship with an operating system disc. This change will take effect in
Europe by later next month. In Asia, things are unchanged-we've always
shipped OS discs."
CH
