when you purchase an upgrade from dns to upgrade prem 11, pref 10, pro 10 to pro 11....does the upgrade come with a new serial number that you have to put in during the insatalation process or does it use the existing serial number and upgrade the serial number at the same time.

any help would be appreciated 

Toshiba 3.0ghz intel pent 4 with HT and 2 gb ddr sdram running xp pro media center sp3 and dragon preferred 10.1   Also.....
Macbook Pro osx10.5.8 with Parallels 4.0 xp pro sp3 and dragon Pro 10.1 Intel core 2 duo 9200 i think...both have built in sound cards, toshiba is realtek and not sure about mac....using a vxi talkpro 100 headset

I use dns 10 pro on macbook and dns 10 pref on toshiba

Thank you for all of your time and effort on my and others behalf

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You will get a new serial number for the new version.

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Lunis,

While you're correct that attempting to install DNS 11.5 Professional using the Premium serial number will not allow for activation. However, just like the loophole with installing the "Upgrade" version, Nuance also has a loophole, or at least did up to this point, which allows you to install DNS 11.5 Professional over top of DNS 11-11.5 Premium and treats it as if you were simply "upgrading" the current install. This allows you to install Professional 11.5 without having to enter any serial number (i.e., Please wait while Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades your software, or something to that effect). This was possible with DNS 10.1, but I've not tried it with DNS 11.5. So, there's no guarantee that this will work, but if so, you can install DNS 11.5 Professional without ever having to reactivate or enter the new serial number. Unless Nuance has fixed this, it's just another hole that they dug for themselves.

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