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Vista upgrade from Home Premium to Business

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If I upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Business, will I lose the media capabilities of home premium? I'm talking about Movie Maker, Media Center, DVD Maker, etc.
I assume the Business upgrade will allow easy attachemnt to server 2003 networks using ConnectComputer and will get me out of Vista network purgatory.
BobThursday, March 6, 2008 11:43 PM
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There is no direct upgrade path from Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. A "clean install" of Vista Business would be required. I would recommend upgrading to Vista Ultimate in order to retain the Vista Home Premium features such as Windows Media Center.Friday, March 7, 2008 5:27 PM
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If you have the money go for ultimate. It should cover all the bells and whistles your looking for and can be updated through anytime update feature.Saturday, March 8, 2008 2:33 AM
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Hi bobpride,
You can refer to the following site to compare the features among different versions of Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx
Tim Quan - MSFT
Monday, March 10, 2008 6:16 AMModerator
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There is no direct upgrade path from Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. A "clean install" of Vista Business would be required. I would recommend upgrading to Vista Ultimate in order to retain the Vista Home Premium features such as Windows Media Center.Friday, March 7, 2008 5:27 PM
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If you have the money go for ultimate. It should cover all the bells and whistles your looking for and can be updated through anytime update feature.Saturday, March 8, 2008 2:33 AM
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Hi bobpride,
You can refer to the following site to compare the features among different versions of Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx
Tim Quan - MSFT
Monday, March 10, 2008 6:16 AMModerator