The HP Upgrade CD has occasionally been seen as an ISO in places like
edonkey and through bittorrents..
there was also a guy selling burned copies of it quietly in the past.
Diane
"Giovanni" <Giovanni@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6EE10921-3BD3-4176-9794-713C47711C7D@microsoft.com...
> Hey there, Just to let you know that yes HP did offer the 2005 media
> center
> upgrade, but that was way back in like Oct/Nov.2004 and the they offered
> it
> for a period of 6mos. for you to contact them or order it on there
> website,
> all you had to pay was the $9.95 shipping. That program though has now
> totally ended and your pretty much out of luck through HP to obtain the
> upgrade now. I can only think of 2 options for you, one would be to try
> and
> get a copy from someone who also has the HP upgrade dvd disk, the other
> option is for you to purchase the oem copy of Media Center 2005, but if
> you
> do this it will have to be a clean install and you will lose any HP extra
> software that may have come with your computer. If you can try an get a
> copy
> of the HP dvd 2005 upgrade disk from someone. Hope this helps you
> somewhat.
>
> "tmwantz" wrote:
>
>> Last year i was able to get an upgrade from the original version my pc
>> had
>> which was MCE2003 to MCE2004 and I upgraded this. Now i would love to go
>> to
>> the 2005 edition. Do they not offer it like they did with the 2004
>> edition?
>>
>> "xmix77" wrote:
>>
>> > I am afraid that you will have no luck in getting an upgrade. Most
>> > major
>> > manufacturers are not interested in supplying upgrades to this version
>> > of
>> > windows, as they are calling a "Consumer electronic device", so, just
>> > like
>> > your home video - you will never get the latest functions. Microsoft
>> > are
>> > extremely bad at support on this issue. I have spent nearly 8 months
>> > chasing
>> > Microsoft and my PC manufacturer about this, but neither are
>> > interested.
>> > Microsoft do not support anyone using MCE - they only offer this
>> > version of
>> > Windows as an OEM product - you cannot buy in in the shops. My advice,
>> > is to
>> > buy an OEM version of MCE2005 yourself (you will usually have to buy a
>> > piece
>> > of hardware to qualify for this). The downside, is that you will get
>> > no help
>> > in installing or manitaining this, and if anything does go wrong, HP
>> > will not
>> > support you because you have changed the operating system. This is a
>> > major
>> > failing of Microsoft, and yet again demonstrates that big companies are
>> > only
>> > interested in getting your money, and dont care about aftersales
>> > support.
>> > Some people will help you with this (including me), but as every macine
>> > is
>> > different, it will cost money.
>> >
>> > Microsoft should sit up and listen - there are many, many people out
>> > there
>> > with this same problem and yet MS doesnt care about any of us!
>> >
>> > Come on MS - your sitting on billions of dollars - im sure if you
>> > wanted,
>> > you could easily provide updates!
>> >
>> > "tmwantz" wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a HP media center 873n and would like to upgrade to the media
>> > > center
>> > > 2005 software. Can someone tell me where I need to go to get this
>> > > update? I
>> > > know I will probably have to call HP, but does anyone have a number.
"Diane McCorkle" wrote:
> The HP Upgrade CD has occasionally been seen as an ISO in places like
> edonkey and through bittorrents..
>
> there was also a guy selling burned copies of it quietly in the past.
>
> Diane
>
>
> "Giovanni" <Giovanni@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6EE10921-3BD3-4176-9794-713C47711C7D@microsoft.com...
> > Hey there, Just to let you know that yes HP did offer the 2005 media
> > center
> > upgrade, but that was way back in like Oct/Nov.2004 and the they offered
> > it
> > for a period of 6mos. for you to contact them or order it on there
> > website,
> > all you had to pay was the $9.95 shipping. That program though has now
> > totally ended and your pretty much out of luck through HP to obtain the
> > upgrade now. I can only think of 2 options for you, one would be to try
> > and
> > get a copy from someone who also has the HP upgrade dvd disk, the other
> > option is for you to purchase the oem copy of Media Center 2005, but if
> > you
> > do this it will have to be a clean install and you will lose any HP extra
> > software that may have come with your computer. If you can try an get a
> > copy
> > of the HP dvd 2005 upgrade disk from someone. Hope this helps you
> > somewhat.
> >
> > "tmwantz" wrote:
> >
> >> Last year i was able to get an upgrade from the original version my pc
> >> had
> >> which was MCE2003 to MCE2004 and I upgraded this. Now i would love to go
> >> to
> >> the 2005 edition. Do they not offer it like they did with the 2004
> >> edition?
> >>
> >> "xmix77" wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am afraid that you will have no luck in getting an upgrade. Most
> >> > major
> >> > manufacturers are not interested in supplying upgrades to this version
> >> > of
> >> > windows, as they are calling a "Consumer electronic device", so, just
> >> > like
> >> > your home video - you will never get the latest functions. Microsoft
> >> > are
> >> > extremely bad at support on this issue. I have spent nearly 8 months
> >> > chasing
> >> > Microsoft and my PC manufacturer about this, but neither are
> >> > interested.
> >> > Microsoft do not support anyone using MCE - they only offer this
> >> > version of
> >> > Windows as an OEM product - you cannot buy in in the shops. My advice,
> >> > is to
> >> > buy an OEM version of MCE2005 yourself (you will usually have to buy a
> >> > piece
> >> > of hardware to qualify for this). The downside, is that you will get
> >> > no help
> >> > in installing or manitaining this, and if anything does go wrong, HP
> >> > will not
> >> > support you because you have changed the operating system. This is a
> >> > major
> >> > failing of Microsoft, and yet again demonstrates that big companies are
> >> > only
> >> > interested in getting your money, and dont care about aftersales
> >> > support.
> >> > Some people will help you with this (including me), but as every macine
> >> > is
> >> > different, it will cost money.
> >> >
> >> > Microsoft should sit up and listen - there are many, many people out
> >> > there
> >> > with this same problem and yet MS doesnt care about any of us!
> >> >
> >> > Come on MS - your sitting on billions of dollars - im sure if you
> >> > wanted,
> >> > you could easily provide updates!
> >> >
> >> > "tmwantz" wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I have a HP media center 873n and would like to upgrade to the media
> >> > > center
> >> > > 2005 software. Can someone tell me where I need to go to get this
> >> > > update? I
> >> > > know I will probably have to call HP, but does anyone have a number.
>
> Hi Diane, I'm looking for the same thing, in order to upgade my Sony PC with microsoft media center 2004 to 2005. I need the disc as well
> It has not been available since May 05. Al Schutte'
