As with the
other poster I suspect you miss the point.
No, I don't think so - I have installed
'upgrades' like 98 on clean machines using a Win95 disk
before.
Buying an
upgrade package doesn't mean it HAS to be installed over an existing
installation... usually if it is not installed already it asks you for one of
the product disks. So you can clean-install an upgrade product.
No, but
people might actually be buying upgrade packages assuming that they keep
all their installed apps & settings :-(
I have no
problem getting WinME or Win2K when buying a new machine, but if
you have a stable Win9x/NT4 installation with all service packs applied, then
there seems to be little reason to rush out & buy an upgrade OS version
that is going to force you to re-install at least some of your
applications.
