Re: Microsoft Kidnapping parts of Windows.

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<794faaa5-0d3f-41b2-9522-c155782586af@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ed <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 21, 5:14 pm, ed <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 21, 5:06 pm, ZnU <z...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Steve de Mena <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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How is that different than the various versions of Vista today?

To the best of my knowledge -- and perhaps I'm wrong, I haven't done
extensive research -- you can't upgrade Vista Home Basic (or whatever)
to Vista Business Edition by just visiting a web site and giving
Microsoft your credit card number.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/anytime-upgrade-ov...

oops, that link isn't very clear about what's possible... but vista
does have that functionality you describe, and you can, within
windows, just go to 'upgrade now.' this allows you to get an upgrade
key and unlock features without reinstalling.

that ms link exists to get media, because not all oem's would have
enabled that function. the disk you get from that link basically
enables that- it includes all versions of vista, you install w/ your
key, and it installs. then you can subsequently do as i describe
above.

a little better description here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Anytime_Upgrade

Even that says that typically the user must install additional files
from a DVD after upgrading. That's not the same thing as simply
unlocking already installed functionality, and once again Microsoft
doesn't currently seem to be offering the sort of fine-grained
feature-level upgrades that the patent mentioned here seems to
anticipate; they just offer a few different "packages" encompassing many
features.

I'm not sure why all of you guys seem so anxious to convince people that
yes, Microsoft is already engaging in the extremely consumer-hostile
activities outlined in the patent.

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