Windows MCE - Vista - XP

[chrisclick]

I've been having some bad thought latly. My parents ordered Vista Upgrade for Windows MCE (Media Centre Edition) and I am achually using Windows XP. Would Vista still work if I didn't have Windows MCE...

Basicly I want to know if:
Vista upgrade for MCE would work on XP?


THANKS!!




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[Templarian]

isn't MCE just XP (but for laptops/and to the lesser and horrible thought... tablets). Its just an edition of XP I believe.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Can you give a link to what you ordered? I was under the impression that there was only one previous “upgradeable from” version, and that all versions of Vista’s upgrade would work from there.

[chrisclick]

Unfortunatly I cannot remember the link. But the guy a PC worl gave us the link to get it cheaper (£25- £30 i think) because we brought a new PC before Vista was released.

So, Templarian. Your saying that there is a 99.9% it would work on XP? (maybe 85%?)

[Templarian]

I'm 95% confident that the mean probability that I'm correct is between 50% and 80% interval.

if i wanted to go on i'd say your random and not normal so take it into consideration when looking over my findings. its not funny if you don't know statistics...

[Pasquale]

just run the upgraade twice- once in trial mode, and then on the second, install it with rego and the key :)

[Esherido]

^ That's exactly what I did, saved me 140 bucks too! Can't lift a finger at that.

[hybrid101]

^with darmotion, though that method is questionable;)

[Vexir]

It will work without a doubt, I upgraded from MCE to Vista Home Premium :)

(I actually bought upgrade then did a clean install using one of those workarounds that I posted in an earlier thread that I made, but I know upgrade works too because I first upgraded then clean installed.. thats part of the workaround)

[Ar3d]

its not for desktop OS its use for palmtop if am not mistaken its the upgrade of windows CE which is recommended only to what i said palmtop.

[hybrid101]

^i just didn't get that.
read something in the MS website and yep, you're good to go on that upgrade:thumb:

[chrisclick]

^Oh good :) its going to be about 2 weeks and 6 days until I get the vista. And has been 4 months waiting for the order to go through. lol

[Theros]

congrats, but I really don't get the need to upgrade right now.... Honestly, what would I gain from upgrading to Vista?

[hybrid101]

^eye candy,UAC, some new stuff listed in microsoft's website;)

[chrisclick]

I might disable UAC when its installed. I just dont like it that I need something to 'control' what I do.