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The info above has been pretty well distributed at this point. What I haven't seen is the mechanics of this operation. I own three licenses for XPPro but none installed on a drive that I want to put Win8 on. I'm assuming they will require proof of ownership to upgrade from XP but it doesn't make sense to reinstall XP, activate it, then install the upgrade to Win8,
Has the procedure been defined anywhere?