Guest larry jordan Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Hello Everyone tells me that xp home upgrade and xp home are the same. Well i have been wondering , if they are the same why will xp home upgrade cost me 99.00 and xp home cost me 194.00? help me if you can thanks larry
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: XP O/S "larry jordan" <someone@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message news:%23E$tPZ2zHHA.3564@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hello > > Everyone tells me that xp home upgrade and xp home are the same. Well i > have been wondering , if they are the same why will xp home upgrade cost > me 99.00 and xp home cost me 194.00? > help me if you can > thanks > larry Functionally they are the same. However, to qualify for an XP Upgrade you must have some other version of Windows installed on your PC (or at least have the CD for this old version). XP Home (Retail) does not require a qualifying product.
Guest larry jordan Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: XP O/S Pegasus Thanks for your help , i got a upgrade and a retail and a new computer i want to put the one thats least likely to give this dumb old man problems. So i guess it dosnt matter which one i use thanks again larry "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:O8BLFc2zHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "larry jordan" <someone@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message > news:%23E$tPZ2zHHA.3564@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Hello >> >> Everyone tells me that xp home upgrade and xp home are the same. Well >> i have been wondering , if they are the same why will xp home upgrade >> cost me 99.00 and xp home cost me 194.00? >> help me if you can >> thanks >> larry > > Functionally they are the same. However, to qualify for an XP > Upgrade you must have some other version of Windows installed > on your PC (or at least have the CD for this old version). > XP Home (Retail) does not require a qualifying product. >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: XP O/S On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:21:10 -0400, "larry jordan" <someone@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > Hello > > Everyone tells me that xp home upgrade and xp home are the same. First, note that it's not "Home Upgrade" vs. "Home." It's the *Upgrade* version of XP Home vs. the *Full* version. (By the way, there's a third type, the OEM version, discussed below). > Well i > have been wondering , if they are the same why will xp home upgrade cost me > 99.00 and xp home cost me 194.00? > help me if you can They are exactly the same as far as what software they contain. However they come with slightly different licenses, and that affects the rules for how you can install them: 1. The Full version can do either a clean installation or an upgrade installation without restrictions. 2. To install the Upgrade version, you must own a copy of a previous qualifying version of Windows. That previous version can be installed, in which case you can upgrade over the top it, or if it's not installed (you want to do a clean installation), you have to insert its CD as proof of ownership when prompted to do so. Note that when you use an Upgrade CD to install, Windows XP becomes tied to that previous version, and the previous version's CD is *not* available to be resold or used on another computer. That's the reason the Upgrade version is cheaper--you end up with one license, not two; if you had used a Full version, you would have two licenses, the XP one and the previous one. For the sake of being complete, I'll mention that the third type, the OEM version, comes with the following disadvantages as compared with the retail version: 1. Its license ties it permanently to the first computer it's installed on. It can never legally be moved to another computer, sold, or given away. That's the show-stopper, as far as I'm concerned, and the reason I almost always recommend against it (especially since it usually costs only slightly less than the Upgrade version). 2. It can only do a clean installation, not an upgrade. 3. Microsoft provides no support for OEM versions. You can't call them with a problem, but instead have to get any needed support from your OEM; that support may range anywhere between good and non-existent. Or you can get support elsewhere, such as in these newsgroups. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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