Windows XP Upgrade eligibility

[James Post]

I have a copy of Windows 98 that I received through a
university license agreement. I am no longer a student
there, and would like to purchase my own copy of Windows
XP. Can I use an upgrade edition with my college copy, or
will I have to purchase the full license?

 

[Guest]

Use what you have. It was good when you bought it, right!!
You can buy a full retail cheaper than you can a up-grade.

http://www.9software.com/

I see OEM for $80.00 XP home and they work fine.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Use what you have. It was good when you bought it, right!!
You can buy a full retail cheaper than you can a up-grade.

http://www.9software.com/

I see OEM for $80.00 XP home and they work fine.

You're confusing apples with oranges! An OEM disk is NOT a full retail
disk! An OEM version will NOT upgrade an existing system. It's also
licensed ONLY for the first computer it's installed on. Even if that
hardware is destroyed, it cannot be transferred to any other hardware.
And Microsoft gives NO support for OEM versions, that support is
supposed to come from the OEM. If you installed the OEM disk onto your
own hardware, then the OEM is *YOU*. In other words, you get no
support from anybody.

And that's why OEM disks are so much cheaper than either full retail
or upgrade disks.

 

[Ron Martell]

I have a copy of Windows 98 that I received through a
university license agreement. I am no longer a student
there, and would like to purchase my own copy of Windows
XP. Can I use an upgrade edition with my college copy, or
will I have to purchase the full license?

I believe that one of the terms of the academic license is that it is
not upgradeable; but you would have to check the actual wording of the
End User License Agreement for your particular copy of Windows 98 in
order to be certain.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
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