On 2010-08-05 08:07 , CheekyGeek wrote:
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.
lately Adobe allows regular price upgrades of education versions to regular versions; this is a change from the past and could change again; i also understand the restrictions on using an edu version for commercial purposes have been removed in the last few years
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.
i've used Little Snitch for years; it's great tool for seeing what apps phone home and even controlling web adds that communicate via non-standard ports; there are lots of ways to do this on each platform, but i don't know of a specific comparable tool on Windows
however, i do not believe Lightroom sends your serial number to Adobe; the beta license had a section about activation and sending serial numbers, but the final version does not use activation
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