Vista Ultimate 64bit TO Business 64-bit -- Possible?

[Guest]

Here's the situation. I'm a member of MSDNAA and I have Vista Business 32-Bit.

My question is, with a 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate DVD, can I put in my
32-bit Business key in and have it downgrade itself to Vista Business 64-bit?

Sense supposivly the Vista DVDs have every version on each one, shouldn't it
be possible?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

No, it's not possible. Just as you can't go from XP Professional to XP Home
without a format.

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[Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]]

Hi,

Yes, one DVD has all of the installations. You can use the DVD to install
Business, but you will not be able to "upgrade" from an existing Ultimate
installation to a Business install

You should be aware that Business only has a subset of the Ultimate
features. If you have Ultimate, I'm not sure why you would want to use an
MSDNAA edition of Business

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