XP Home and Office?

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i am thinking of upgrading my computer from 98SE to xp,
cause i keep getting the blue screen, etc. but i really
need microsoft office....is that attached in xp for the
upgrade home edition?
 
Aside from the response that MS Office is a separate software product, if a
Windows 98 system has problems, upgrading to Windows XP is not the answer
for correcting those problems. Doing a clean install of the Windows XP
Upgrade (formatting the drive and then installing the upgrade, then swapping
the Windows 98 CD for verification of a prior version then swapping back to
the Windows XP Upgrade CD when verification is accepted) might fix the
problem if it isn't due to defective hardware), but doing a quick upgrade
over Windows 98 WITHOUT formatting the drive will probably not fix the
problem. If your old system came with CDs for Office, you can install that
version of Office after you install the Windows XP Upgrade. Most versions
of Office are Windows XP compatible, although there have been some problems
with Outlook 97.
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T.C. said:
Aside from the response that MS Office is a separate software product, if a
Windows 98 system has problems, upgrading to Windows XP is not the answer
for correcting those problems. Doing a clean install of the Windows XP
Upgrade (formatting the drive and then installing the upgrade,
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That was sound advice back at Win95 to Win98. In upgrading from them to
XP it is dubious. So much of the system is entirely different and
therefore replaced that an upgrade from the POV of the system is
essentially new. But you *do* bring forward the software that is
already installed, not to mention perhaps drivers where there is no good
native XP one. I would always do an upgrade in the first instance - if
it does not work out you can still do the clean install - the converse
is not true
 
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