Installation XP

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What that says is that you can activate by telephone, and in that
situation the telephone rep will accept the Vista key. But it does
*not* say that you can activate over the internet yourself by using
the Vista key.

It's perhaps just a difference of semantics, but to me, that's not at
all what I thought the OP meant.
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OP stated:
Hello!
can I use VISTA product key to activate XP???
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So, I don't really think it matters whether it's the Internet or a phone
call. Then again, it could matter if the CSR doesn't understand the
protocol.

Furthermore, there is no evidence the OP is in a downgrade rights
situtaion. I just wanted to mention that as a sidebar because it does
seem to be a very interesting exception to the rule.
And now I do seem to
recall this discussion on the Net from two years ago.

But here's the problem: If the Micorosoft CSR doesn't know about the
protocol (which is to listen to your explanation that you are
downgrading and you do indeed have downgrade righs [I wonder how you
prove this without faxing or scanning/uploading the receipt!] and
then issue you an *activation* ID), good luck, Charlie!
The reason I ask
is that in a thread I recently started:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt....hread/ec1388c3f4d52e2c/8fc46d5bbc9682f4?hl=en

one poster (William R. Walsh) answered me that it can occur in a
situation where there are downgrade rights. Unfortunately, no one
corroborated this so far.

Of course, in my example, the key isn't that important as long as a
person has the correct XP installation CD (Dell-branded). But in
the event the Dell CD is lost and someone has access to a generic
OEM XP installation CD, the claim was made that the Vista Product
Key on the Dell COA sticker would work.
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