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Mar 23, 2008

New PC bought with Vista pre-installed. I own an unused XP Professional Upgrade CD. Can I upgrade / crossgrade / downgrade from Vista to XP Pro using the upgrade CD ? I'm anticipating failure when it doesn't detect a previous complying product - is this so, and if so what media and licensing steps offer a workaround ?

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