halo kid said:
I want halo 2 to work on my computer that is runing on windows XP. Will
Windows Vista be a upgrade to XP or will i have to save up some money to
buy
Windows Vista?
Windows Vista will be a brand new version of Windows, and so won't be free.
At the moment OEM versions of Windows are around the £100 mark. But these
require you to re-format your drive and start from scratch - they also have
to be sold with a piece of hardware, but most places will define a piece of
hardware as a mouse or floppy drive so they don't add much more to the
price, but OEM versions once installed are tired forever to that one machine
they're installed on.
Retail versions are more expensive, but come with support from Microsoft,
can be used to upgrade previous Windows versions (although if this will be
true with Vista is currently unknown), but they can be transfered to a newer
machine if you upgrade (assuming it's been removed from the old machine
first).
But of course with Vista any of that could change and we won't know for sure
until closer to launch day. You can find out more about Windows Vista at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/
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