Ms refurbisher program question

[madmark]

I have tried google searching and reading the sticky thread and all the info on the registered refurbisher site but cant seem to find an answer to this question. In the refurbisher program you are allowed to upgrade xp home to windows 7 home, xp pro to windows 7 pro, etc. I cant seem to find any info about xp media center. Is it legal to upgrade? and if so to which version of windows 7? I emailed the rrpna but all i have gotten in 5 days is an email saying the received my email and are checking into it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Kitten Kong]

Hmm, good question.

I will ask my suppliers into the morning, and get back to you. It's not something I have come across before. As mce is hardly ever installed on machines I've worked on. I'd say <4 in 7 years.

 

[Martyn]

Did anyone find an answer to this? I can't find any info in my refurbisher information.

 

[Kitten Kong]

To be honest Martyn, I completely forgot about this.

I can see nothing anywhere either..

 

[ohio_grad_06]

I'm not in the refurbisher program, but wouldn't it be home premium as I thought that included media center?

 

[Martyn]

I'm not in the refurbisher program, but wouldn't it be home premium as I thought that included media center?

Well you have to go with what Microsofts says and they mention XP Home and Professional but not Media Center. You would have thought they would have mentioned it one way or another. I've got a Dell pc that is a reasonable spec I.e dual core processor and support 4GB of ram

 

[Moltuae]

I refurbed an XP Media centre machine to Windows 7 Pro recently and the licence serial numbers were accepted, allowing me to generated a Windows 7 refurb key without any problem.

As I understand it, if the refurbisher site accepts the upgrade route, then it's a valid upgrade route. Also, I believe Media Centre Ed is based on Pro anyway, is it not?

In any case, didn't I read somewhere that MS recently announced a change to the conditions, allowing an upgrade between dissimilar editions?

 

[Martyn]

I refurbed an XP Media centre machine to Windows 7 Pro recently and the licence serial numbers were accepted, allowing me to generated a Windows 7 refurb key without any problem.

As I understand it, if the refurbisher site accepts the upgrade route, then it's a valid upgrade route. Also, I believe Media Centre Ed is based on Pro anyway, is it not?

In any case, didn't I read somewhere that MS recently announced a change to the conditions, allowing an upgrade between dissimilar editions?

My thinking was the Media Center and Professional were close. Whenever I've done a Media Center repair I've use a Professional cd if it needed one for the i386. It's just not documented that I can see. I probably will do this one then.

 

[AndyM]

XP Media Centre is actually a subset of XP Pro. Disc 1 is XP Pro, Disc 2 is the Media Centre Add On. Shouldn't be a problem.

Andy

 

[carrcomp]

I'd check with Microsoft at this point and get clarification.

Last thing you want to do is get hit for using the program improperly.