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Differences between XP
Name: dim03 Date: July 28, 2005 at 19:54:44 Pacific OS: Win XP Professional CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512m
Comment:
What's the difference between XP Pro Upgrade, XP Pro Acedemic and XP Pro Full?
Name: ham30 Date: July 28, 2005 at 19:59:55 Pacific
Reply:
'Full' can be installed on any system. No prior version of windows is needed.
'Upgrade' needs proof of ownership of a prior windows version.
'Academic' is 'probably' issued to schools.
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Response Number 2
Name: dim03 Date: July 28, 2005 at 20:01:46 Pacific
Reply:
For the Upgrade, how do I prove ownership?
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Response Number 3
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: July 28, 2005 at 20:32:07 Pacific
Reply:
It will ask you to put in a prior copy of Windows, and you simply put a Windows cd in cd rom, it checks i t, then you put back upgrade and off you go!
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Response Number 4
Name: johnr Date: July 29, 2005 at 00:00:31 Pacific
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Academic versions are available to anyone connected to education - teacher or student - even having a school aged child in the family is allowed (in the UK at least, dont know if it's different in Australia) - also don't know how they verify that a pupil is at a school/college though. Can't imagine they phone up & check every one?
Summary: whats the difference between XP Pro and XP Home Edition?? I tried running some chat programs and it worked for me on Home Edition but didnt work on XP Pro. ...
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