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Upgrade to POS 2.0, or downgrade to XP? Cheaper option?

I have been using POS 1.0 for several months now, and purchased a second computer to use as a backup. What I wanted was a turnkey backup station which could be turned on in an instant if my primary POS crashed - thus I needed a second license for POS. So I bought one assuming that it would work with my new machine, but it turns out that MSDE is required for POS 1.0, and SQL2005 is the only server Vista supports (my new machine came with Vista Basic, so I bought an upgrade to Business). So from what I understand, I have two options. Either:

1) Upgrade my POS software to POS 2.0 twice. (I would need to upgrade both licenses, since I want the machines to be functionally identical.)

or

2) Downgrade the OS on my new machine to XP.

Does anyone know which of these two options would be cheaper? Buying XP Pro is still ~$200, but I don't know anything about the cost of upgrading POS. Does MS have any discounted upgrade path, or do I simply need to re-purchase POS? If that's the case, upgrading both machines would cost ~$1200 (I think POS 2.0 runs about $600, but I could be mistaken).

Any info would be appreciated.

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Tim Skoch
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I have been using POS 1.0 for several months now, and purchased a second computer to use as a backup. What I wanted was a turnkey backup station which could be turned on in an instant if my primary POS crashed - thus I needed a second license for POS. So I bought one assuming that it would work with my new machine, but it turns out that MSDE is required for POS 1.0, and SQL2005 is the only server Vista supports (my new machine came with Vista Basic, so I bought an upgrade to Business). So from what I understand, I have two options. Either: 1) Upgrade my POS software to POS 2.0 twice. (I would need to upgrade both licenses, since I want the machines to be functionally identical.)

or

2) Downgrade the OS on my new machine to XP.

Does anyone know which of these two options would be cheaper? Buying XP Pro is still ~$200, but I don't know anything about the cost of upgrading POS. Does MS have any discounted upgrade path, or do I simply need to re-purchase POS? If that's the case, upgrading both machines would cost ~$1200 (I think POS 2.0 runs about $600, but I could be mistaken).

Any info would be appreciated.

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CptSoft

HI Tim, I can see that Microsoft might not have upgrade path as this product is belongs to Retail Releam and so much tight kind of rules they have, however if you have already upgrade or service plan for the POS 1.0 you must have also got the upgrade to 2.0 if you don't then you re-purcahse the whole license.

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Akber Alwani

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