To echo previous comments, there are minor upgrade (point releases) such as from 3.0 to 3.1 (etc.) and then there are major upgrades, such as from 2.x to 3. Generally, education versions are not major-upgradable (or if they are they are priced high enough that you would be better off just buying a fresh education copy of the new release.
I also suspect that even if the serial number is in the box, the application is made to "phone home" to make sure that the serial number is an authorized one and not a serial crack. On Mac's the "phone home" can be optionally prevented with a program called "Li'l Snitch". Not sure if an equivalent program is out there for Windoze. Darren Addy Kearney, NE -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
