Full Vista for Half the Price

It would appear that Microsoft haven’t learnt from its previous experiences. Working as a consumer IT technician during the release of Windows XP, we found it trivial to load up an XP Upgrade pack onto any system. This was possible as the upgrades to XP were merely full editions with a number of checking systems in place. Buy an upgrade, bypass the checks and install your new version of windows at half the cost.

Vista has been released for about two weeks now and guess what? Its happened again.
The Register reports on Marc Liron of www.instantvista.com and his technique to apply the same strategy to Windows Vista.

From the article.

“In short, all you need to do is delay entering your product key and delay validating your copy of Vista online until the setup is complete. For some reason, Microsoft has decided to allow users to install first and deal with the paperwork later. Simple in theory, although the details of exactly how to do this are a bit lengthy, and we strongly recommend following Liron’s step-by-step instructions linked above. But, in a nutshell, all you are doing is avoiding the traps that MS has set up to cancel the upgrade installation if an authorised version of Windows isn’t already present. If you dodge those traps, you can install a Vista upgrade on any machine, and later enter your product key and validate your copy normally.”

More Information:

The Register - How to install a Vista upgrade on any PC
Marc Liron Article, Step by step guide.