Thanks OP!

mykindofdeal said:

And let me be the first to say... Windows finnally priced at what it is worth


Now if only they would sell Office at the same price!

Does anyone have a copy of the rebate form, it seems down reight now.

PM me.

Thanks

Am I the only one that is having a hard time getting the rebate to come up? It does not want to connect. Anyone else have it on another link?

corduroy said:Here's another upgrade option for those willing.
Use it to upgrade to Vista.

I know, not everyone wants to go to Vista but if someone doesn't have a legit version of windows and they want to go legit, it's a lot cheaper to: buy this winxp upgrade for 10$ and then purchase Vista Home Basic upgrade for 99$ than it is to purchase Vista Home Basic Full for 199$

Essentially purchase Vista Home Basic Full for 110$ instead of 199$
Can you upgrade an upgrade? I'm not sure if we can use this XP upgrade CD to migrate to Vista by using a Vista upgrade CD in the future.

Teletubbie said:corduroy said:Here's another upgrade option for those willing.
Use it to upgrade to Vista.

I know, not everyone wants to go to Vista but if someone doesn't have a legit version of windows and they want to go legit, it's a lot cheaper to: buy this winxp upgrade for 10$ and then purchase Vista Home Basic upgrade for 99$ than it is to purchase Vista Home Basic Full for 199$

Essentially purchase Vista Home Basic Full for 110$ instead of 199$
Can you upgrade an upgrade? I'm not sure if we can use this XP upgrade CD to migrate to Vista by using a Vista upgrade CD in the future.

Wouldn't matter about upgrading an upgrade if the XP upgrade is installed. The Vista upgrade would just check to see if an applicable OS is installed (which it would be), then run it's own upgrade. That's the way XP upgrade works right now. The only time you have to provide a disk to validate it is if the hard drive has no OS on it.

Teletubbie said:corduroy said:Here's another upgrade option for those willing.
Use it to upgrade to Vista.

I know, not everyone wants to go to Vista but if someone doesn't have a legit version of windows and they want to go legit, it's a lot cheaper to: buy this winxp upgrade for 10$ and then purchase Vista Home Basic upgrade for 99$ than it is to purchase Vista Home Basic Full for 199$

Essentially purchase Vista Home Basic Full for 110$ instead of 199$
Can you upgrade an upgrade? I'm not sure if we can use this XP upgrade CD to migrate to Vista by using a Vista upgrade CD in the future.
From what I've read looking into this, people have done a clean install of WinXP Home by using a Win98 (se, me) upgrade CD with the WinXP home upgrade CD. They inserted the Win98 upgrade CD when it asked for valid media and it worked. The discussion I've read said how they are essentially the same CDs. Now, will this work with WinVista? I don't guarantee it but am planning on purchasing WinXP home this Sunday.

edit: i see this was discussed earlier. The way I see it, if true, is that if a person upgrades from Win98 to Windows XP - all they have is the windows XP CD but it's still a valid license for Windows XP and by all accounts, a valid Windows XP is allowed to upgrade to Windows Vista. However, if a person does a clean install, the only have a Windows XP upgrade CD. This is really perplexing and I don't think anyone can know for sure until someone explicitly states that it worked for them, haha.

richecker said:Am I the only one that is having a hard time getting the rebate to come up? It does not want to connect. Anyone else have it on another link?

I had problems too but it came up after I turned off my firewall. Maybe try that if you are running a firewall.

And thanks OP and everyone else. This has been a a helpful thread.

Anyone knows where I can get Win98/95 so I can use this upgrade? I threw away my old Windows discs a long time ago.

Redscott said:I have a no nag OEM XP Home SP 2 CD that came with a Compaq Notebook.

I would like to buy this deal just for the CD Key.

DO you think I could install this on a relatives computer using my OEM intall CD and punch in the CD Key from this deal.

I don't have an old OS Cd and want to avoid the nag for one.


I have installed the Compaq supplied WinXP Home cd on 2 of my laptops (Averatec and Acer) and just typed in the legit XP Home key from stickers underneath each laptop and it has worked.

My relative needs to run an authentic XP version.

No