All the ones I have are the $50.00 versions. 2 Amazon, 2 Office
Depot. All of them dual disks.
You ought to see the educational discounts on it.
Stewart
At 09:53 PM 10/26/2009, you wrote:
I've read in several places that all the upgrade discs contain the full
version and that no proof of earlier versions of windows on the HD or other
media is needed. Between this and the 50 dollar windows copies you could
get at amazon earlier this year, that makes this a good deal for some of
those smart shoppers.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Tony B <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, I got my Family Pack (2 DVDs, 32 bit and 64 bit, one Product
> ID). Went to install it on a new hard drive and setup reached the
> point of asking me for the Product ID. I typed it.
>
> In a flyout I got: "The product key is not valid" "Please retype the
> product key". It seemed to already have locked on the caps lock, and
> it was adding my dashes for me. But I dutifully tried to retype it
> several times before giving up and calling MS.
>
> In a call that must have lasted an hour all told, I eventually got the
> word to just leave that space blank and activate later, after install.
> That worked.
>
> I should also point out that they emailed me the instructions how to
> make my "upgrade" install a "clean" install (a registry setting).
>
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