which Vista to choose?

Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
Retail?

The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS boot
menu?

Thanks

Will be upgrading your XP installation or a clean install? If you are
upgrading, purchase the Vista Home Premium (retail Upgrade). If you will
still be using that existing installation of XP, you will have purchase the
Vista Home Premium (FPP Full Packaged Product license)
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Vic" <> wrote in message
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> Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the Home
> Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade, Retail?
>
> The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager. Which
> version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS boot menu?
>
> Thanks
>

XP will stay, Vista would be a separate 'clean' installation. Thanks.
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"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Will be upgrading your XP installation or a clean install? If you are
> upgrading, purchase the Vista Home Premium (retail Upgrade). If you
> will still be using that existing installation of XP, you will have
> purchase the Vista Home Premium (FPP Full Packaged Product license)
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "Vic" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
>> Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
>> Retail?
>>
>> The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
>> Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS
>> boot menu?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>

Yeah, so Windows Vista Home Premium FPP would be it then just comply with
license agreement.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Vic" <> wrote in message
news:...
> XP will stay, Vista would be a separate 'clean' installation. Thanks.
> ___
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Will be upgrading your XP installation or a clean install? If you are
>> upgrading, purchase the Vista Home Premium (retail Upgrade). If you will
>> still be using that existing installation of XP, you will have purchase
>> the Vista Home Premium (FPP Full Packaged Product license)
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "Vic" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
>>> Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
>>> Retail?
>>>
>>> The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
>>> Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS boot
>>> menu?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:31:13 -0500, Vic wrote:

> Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
> Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
> Retail?
>
> The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
> Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS boot
> menu?
>
> Thanks

Probably not the retail. It has been reported several times that the
upgrade package will, indeed, do a full install.

With Retail if the computer goes belly up you can install it on another
computer (one at a time). With OEM if the computer/motherboard
dies the licence reverts back to Micro$oft and can't legally be installed
on another motherboard. That's why OEM's are cheaper.

later.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:uK$...
> Yeah, so Windows Vista Home Premium FPP would be it then just comply with
> license agreement.
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "Vic" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > XP will stay, Vista would be a separate 'clean' installation. Thanks.
> > ___
> > "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> >> Will be upgrading your XP installation or a clean install? If you are
> >> upgrading, purchase the Vista Home Premium (retail Upgrade). If you
will
> >> still be using that existing installation of XP, you will have purchase
> >> the Vista Home Premium (FPP Full Packaged Product license)
> >> --
> >> Andre
> >> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> >> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> >> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> >> "Vic" <> wrote in message
> >> news:...
> >>> Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
> >>> Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
> >>> Retail?
> >>>
> >>> The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
> >>> Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS
boot
> >>> menu?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

Yes, but it goes back to the license compliance, Vista's licensing agreement
for the Upgrade package means you have an existing installation of Windows
XP to upgrade from. The work around for the Upgrade disk is just a sneaking
under the fence.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"ray" <> wrote in message
news...
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:31:13 -0500, Vic wrote:
>
>> Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
>> Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
>> Retail?
>>
>> The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
>> Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS boot
>> menu?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Probably not the retail. It has been reported several times that the
> upgrade package will, indeed, do a full install.
>

Vic, this PC is an AMD XP2100+ w/2gb ddr400 & a 256mb ATI 8x agp.
It's certainly not a fast PC by today's standards but it runs XP Pro w/SP2
extremely well and fast enough. Some months ago I bought the full retail
version of Vista Home Premium and installed it on a 2nd hard drive in a dual
boot configuration on this PC. One thing I can say is that while Vista HP
runs on this PC, it's performance is very sluggish compared to XP Pro on the
exact same hardware. I bought the full retail version of Vista HP because I
figured this would be the case and I wanted the option to move Vista to a
new, much faster PC (hardware only, no OS) maybe in a year or 2. If you want
to be able to legally move Vista to a new PC in the future, get the full
retail version. It costs more but you cannot legally do that with an OEM
version or with an upgrade version either.

Richard


"Vic" <> wrote in message
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Looked at Microsoft's comparison sheet of Vista versions. Decided the
Home Premium is the one to buy. Question is, which one, OEM, Upgrade,
Retail?

The system here is a multi-boot (95,98,XP) with MS as boot manager.
Which version of Home Premium will install and still provide the MS boot
menu?

Thanks

Not the only reason, just one of many reasons why OEM is cheaper than
retail.
There is nothing in the license that refers to the motherboard.
A fried motherboard replaced is an upgrade/replacement and you can do
that with OEM.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"***** charles" <> wrote in message
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> With Retail if the computer goes belly up you can install it on
> another
> computer (one at a time). With OEM if the computer/motherboard
> dies the licence reverts back to Micro$oft and can't legally be
> installed
> on another motherboard. That's why OEM's are cheaper.
>
> later.

The best version of windows is called XP

if you want to have problems.. then by all means install vista.