upgrade.

[stevel]

I tried to contact MS's Licensing agreement program about
this and got no response from them.
I have a friend that purchased XP home and wanted to
upgrade to Pro, does she have to bye an upgrade cd to pro
or is there a more cheaper way via MS.
A while back MS had an upgrade program that if you had the
standard version of office and needed to upgrade to
proffesional it was a cheaper cost, you did not have to go
to the store and purchase office upgrade or a full blown
version of ms access.

TIA

 

[Malke]

I tried to contact MS's Licensing agreement program about
this and got no response from them.
I have a friend that purchased XP home and wanted to
upgrade to Pro, does she have to bye an upgrade cd to pro
or is there a more cheaper way via MS.
A while back MS had an upgrade program that if you had the
standard version of office and needed to upgrade to
proffesional it was a cheaper cost, you did not have to go
to the store and purchase office upgrade or a full blown
version of ms access.

She has to buy the upgrade version of XP Pro.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

She'll have to purchase the WinXP Pro Upgrade license. That
special offer to which you refer expired years ago, and was only
available for the first few months of WinXP's existence. However, I
don't understand your reference to Microsoft Access. Surely you don't
think that it comes with WinXP Pro, do you?

Bruce Chambers
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I tried to contact MS's Licensing agreement program about
this and got no response from them.
I have a friend that purchased XP home and wanted to
upgrade to Pro, does she have to bye an upgrade cd to pro
or is there a more cheaper way via MS.

Sorry, there is no cheaper way. The upgrade version is her
cheapest alternative.

But is he sure she wants to do this? Is she aware that XP Home
and Professional are identical except that Professional includes
a few features (mostly related to security and networking)
missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use
these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading.

 

[Viciii3]

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Sorry, there is no cheaper way. The upgrade version is her
cheapest alternative.

But is he sure she wants to do this? Is she aware that XP Home
and Professional are identical except that Professional includes
a few features (mostly related to security and networking)
missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use
these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading.

Sorry to butt in...I have been told that XP PRO does not suffer from
the extremely lame and irritating habit of XP HOME in regards to
"Limited" users being able to run programs installed.

With XP Home it was a virtual cornucopea of "fixes", command line
entries, Administrator account changes to program security settings,
just to allow a "limited" user to run a program...and none of those
worked for some of my programs installed for the family to use
(Broderbund's Print Shop Deluxe, as an example). I ended up having to
make all user accounts "Administrator" type...and now I'm paying for
it with a clean XP install staring me in the face (I have a 17 and 13
year old...NEVER make anyone of these an Administrator!! LOL!).

In talking with some friends it was stated that XP PRO allows an
administrator to EASILY set program access and "change" capability for
"Limited" user accounts. "Change" capability is a "must have" for any
users playing games (almost every PC game allows settings, saves etc.
for seperate users).

Can you tell me if XP PRO really allows an administrator to easily
set program access for "Limited" account users?

Thanks.

Vic

 

[SteveL]

Hello and thanks for your answer, the refference to MS
access was that MS would upgrade a standard version of MS
OFFICE to a PROFFESIONAL version for an little extra cost.
The Standard version of OFFICE did not include MS ACCESS.
I did not know if they had something simullar.