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Qualifying Operating Systems for the Microsoft Windows XP Professional/Vista Upgrade

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Customers who wish to acquire the Windows XP Professional or Vista Upgrade license through NC State's Academic Select and Campus Agreement programs must first license a qualifying operating system for their university owned computer or workstation. The qualifying operating systems are:

  • Windows XP Professional (32 bit or 64 bit)
  • Windows XP Professional Blade PC Edition
  • Windows XP Professional Reduced Media Edition
  • Windows XP Professional N
  • Windows 2000 Professional
  • Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or 3.51
  • Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows XP Home Edition
    Windows 3.x, Windows for Workgroups 3.x
  • IBM OS/2
  • Apple Macintosh
  • UNIX: SCO (Xenix, UnixWare), Hewlett-Packard (HP-UX), IBM (AIX, 4680/90), Digital (Ultrix, OSF/1, Digital UNIX), or SGI (IRIX).

Any operating system not listed above is not a qualifying OS, for example:

  • Embedded Systems (e.g. Windows 9.x for embedded, Windows XP embedded) do not qualify for the Windows XP Professional or Vista Upgrade.
  • No version of a Linux operating system from any vendor qualifies for the Windows XP Professional or Vista Upgrade.
  • Windows 2000 Terminal Services Client Access License does not qualify for the Windows XP Professional or VistaUpgrade.

Last updated August 7, 2007 by wkcoker

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