I have an OEM version of Vista 32-bit Home Premium and Vista 32-bit Home Premium from my old laptop. Are these eligible for the $39.99 Windows 8 Pro upgrade?
And is the "upgrade" just an upgrade (i.e. I have to have Vista installed and the downloaded file only works with an OS installed) or it a full installation ISO with a CD-key?
The normal system for OEM has always been that you could upgrade an OEM install with a retail upgrade copy of a new OS but the upgraded OS would take on the restrictions present in the original OEM licence, tied to one system etc.
I am assuming this will be the case with windows 8, as I have not, (yet), seen any exceptions in the upgrade info but we will only know for sure once windows 8 goes "General Availability" in octiober.
The same wait and see situation also exists with the format of the upgrade, where-as the pre-release and RTM copies are all ISO it could be the upgrade may be different, even as far as a small download and then a remote web install for the actual inatall, only MS knows for sure at the moment, and they are not saying
