{"id":1036,"date":"2008-04-03T07:16:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/vista-sp1-upgrade-eliminates-need-to-buy-full-version-says-windows-secrets-963\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T11:16:58","slug":"vista-sp1-upgrade-eliminates-need-to-buy-full-version-says-windows-secrets-963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/vista-sp1-upgrade-eliminates-need-to-buy-full-version-says-windows-secrets-963\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista SP1 Upgrade Eliminates Need to Buy Full Version, Says Windows Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                             <em>Vista SP1 Upgrade costs much less than Full Edition<\/em>                                         <\/p>\n<p>                                             Seattle, WA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/\">PRWEB<\/a>) April 3, 2008 &#8211; Microsoft customers can install the &quot;upgrade edition&quot; of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on any PC without having to purchase a &quot;full&quot; version of Microsoft Vista, according to an article in today&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowssecrets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Windows Secrets Newsletter\" onclick=\"linkClick( this.href );\">Windows Secrets Newsletter<\/a>. Associate editor Scott Dunn says users can take advantage of a trick to upgrade to Windows Vista SP1 regardless of whether any older version of Windows is running on their machines, which can result in cost savings. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The latest upgrade edition of Windows Vista SP1 allows the upgrade to be installed and activated even if consumers don&#39;t currently have any previous version of Windows running,&quot; says Dunn. &quot;This is a great cost break, because the Vista SP1 upgrade edition is around $100 cheaper than the full version, depending on your country and what retail version of Vista you buy.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>                   The upgrade &quot;trick&quot; involves installing an unactivated version of Vista from the product DVD. The user then launches setup from within Vista, reinstalls using the operating system&#39;s &quot;upgrade&quot; option, and enters the product key. <\/p>\n<p> This procedure was originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/2007\/02\/01\/01-Get-Vista-upgrade-never-pay-full-price\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"February 2007\" onclick=\"linkClick( this.href );\">February 2007<\/a> by Windows Secrets editorial director Brian Livingston. He explained then that the earlier, &quot;gold&quot; release of Vista allowed upgrades without requiring an existing version of Windows or even a CD of an older Windows operating system to be present. Fourteen months later, the download trick continues to work with the Vista SP1 upgrade edition. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;The fact that the company has not taken steps to remove the upgrade trick from Vista SP1 leads us to believe that Microsoft executives knowingly support the trick,&quot; said Livingston. &quot;I think the feature was deliberately included to make it unnecessary for more advanced and price-sensitive users to ever buy the full version. There is no ethical dilemma with people using a feature that Microsoft has specifically programmed into Vista.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Instructions for performing the Vista SP1 upgrade trick, as well as a table illustrating the cost savings by country and version, can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/2008\/04\/03\/ts\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Windows Secrets\" onclick=\"linkClick( this.href );\">Windows Secrets<\/a>.     <\/p>\n<p> About Windows Secrets <br \/> WindowsSecrets.com publishes a weekly e-mail newsletter with more than 275,000 subscribers. Published since 2003, the newsletter reveals tips and tricks to get the most out of Microsoft Windows. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowssecrets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"linkClick( this.href );\">www.WindowsSecrets.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vista SP1 Upgrade costs much less than Full Edition Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 &#8211; Microsoft customers can install the &quot;upgrade edition&quot; of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on any PC without having to purchase a &quot;full&quot; version of Microsoft Vista, according to an article in today&#39;s Windows Secrets Newsletter. Associate editor Scott Dunn &#8230; <a title=\"Vista SP1 Upgrade Eliminates Need to Buy Full Version, Says Windows Secrets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/vista-sp1-upgrade-eliminates-need-to-buy-full-version-says-windows-secrets-963\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Vista SP1 Upgrade Eliminates Need to Buy Full Version, Says Windows Secrets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[94,93,704,703],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","tag-latest-news","tag-news","tag-says-windows-secrets","tag-vista-sp1-upgrade-eliminates-need-to-buy-full-version"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vista SP1 Upgrade Eliminates Need to Buy Full Version, Says Windows Secrets - The Force Field Podcast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/vista-sp1-upgrade-eliminates-need-to-buy-full-version-says-windows-secrets-963\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vista SP1 Upgrade Eliminates Need to Buy Full Version, Says Windows Secrets - The Force Field Podcast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vista SP1 Upgrade costs much less than Full Edition Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 &#8211; Microsoft customers can install the &quot;upgrade edition&quot; of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on any PC without having to purchase a &quot;full&quot; version of Microsoft Vista, according to an article in today&#039;s Windows Secrets Newsletter. 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