Media Player Licenses

[Talbot]

I'm considering upgrading a NT PC to Vista Home Premium. I have two questions:

1. Do I have to do a clean install without any of my programs being saved?

2. I have used up my alocated # of Media licenses to new computers. Will
the current licenes transfer if I back them up and do a restore?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

When you say an NT PC, what are referring to NT 4? Try using the appropriate
name, if you are running Windows 2000 or later, you should be able upgrade
to Windows Vista and your licenses migrate just fine since it will be same
machine, just that its a new OS.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

During the upgrade process the licenses will be migrated if possible.

If he's at "maximum transfer" level or whatever he was indicating (I didn't
100% follow), he might want to check with the license providers to see if
they would allow/support that.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Your query does not make any sense. Windows Vista is a network operating
system, depending on the context or SKU that is used. If his media licenses
are on Windows NT 4 Workstation and he migrated to Windows Vista Business he
would still be using a network operating system which is based on the 'NT'
code base.

Windows NT 4 Workstation, 2000 Professional (NT 5.0), XP Professional (NT
5.1), Vista (NT 6.0) Business, Enterprise, Ultimate are all network
operating systems because they all share a common core operating system
structure. Even the consumer skus such as Home Basic and Home Premium are
network operating systems just that they lack certain functionality required
on business networks such as the ability to join a Windows Server domain.

What you are probably confusing and assuming is, Vista is only multi-media
OS, but this is not case at all.