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Originally Posted by Russ B
So for your average home-user, other than the inconvenience of wasting 30 minutes installing an initial OS, there's nothing really wrong with doing this, surely?
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Correct, except that its not just your average home-user that installs OSes, like the article said..
Also, there are other problems... Like what if you can't install XP for some error? You get Vista. You can't buy the upgrade version you are entitled to, you have to spend an extra 100 quid for the full version.
Microsoft offer no reason for this, so its quite probably about money. Digging around, it seems the Ultimate version is exempt, although its cheaper to buy a full home version and an upgrade Ultimate version.