…is available for pre-order. At half price, until July 11th.
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Crap… its only available for the upgrade version. I hate upgrade versions, because you carry all the baggage from the previous OS. I like clean installs. Why not provide the discounts for the full versions too? I don’t care if it is not 50%, 30% would be huge.
You can probably do a clean install with the upgrade version – it will just ask you for the disk from a prior version.
@Leland the way Windows 7 does “upgrade” installs is different than with previous windows OSes. It’s not, strictly speaking, an upgrade, instead, the install collects all your system settings and installed program settings, does a complete fresh install of win 7, then applies your old settings, drivers, program installations, etc. It’s far more robust than previous upgrade paths.
Also, as Mark said, you should be able to do a clean install even with the upgrade version.
That’s great. I’m going to have to pre-order. I’ve been running Win 7 on my production laptop since the recent beta and it’s been great. First version of Windows that I’ve really liked in a long time.
Interesting, the upgrade is valid for upgrade from “any other operating system”. So, win95, dos, Linux even? Cool.
That’s great. I’m going to have to pre-order.
Do it through that link, and I get a cut.
Thanks for the info. I think Rand deserves a cut.
I’m still a happy camper with XP. I wonder how long XP will remain a viable operating system before I really need to upgrade?
BTW, although I have ancient, but still valid, XP OEM licenses for my HP laptop and desktop systems these days I use the TinyXP images available on torrent sites on the rare occasions I do have to re-install XP. The nice thing is those images have a lot of the useless cruft removed and they have all the patches applied up through SP3 and beyond so I don’t have to wait the four to five hours for XP to update itself once installed from my ancient SP1 CDs. I know it is probably pirating from a legal perspective, but from a moral perspective it doesn’t seem that bad since I am licensed to use XP Pro on my two systems.
Crap… its only available for the upgrade version. I hate upgrade versions, because you carry all the baggage from the previous OS. I like clean installs. Why not provide the discounts for the full versions too? I don’t care if it is not 50%, 30% would be huge.
You can probably do a clean install with the upgrade version – it will just ask you for the disk from a prior version.
@Leland the way Windows 7 does “upgrade” installs is different than with previous windows OSes. It’s not, strictly speaking, an upgrade, instead, the install collects all your system settings and installed program settings, does a complete fresh install of win 7, then applies your old settings, drivers, program installations, etc. It’s far more robust than previous upgrade paths.
Also, as Mark said, you should be able to do a clean install even with the upgrade version.
That’s great. I’m going to have to pre-order. I’ve been running Win 7 on my production laptop since the recent beta and it’s been great. First version of Windows that I’ve really liked in a long time.
Interesting, the upgrade is valid for upgrade from “any other operating system”. So, win95, dos, Linux even? Cool.
That’s great. I’m going to have to pre-order.
Do it through that link, and I get a cut.
Thanks for the info. I think Rand deserves a cut.
I’m still a happy camper with XP. I wonder how long XP will remain a viable operating system before I really need to upgrade?
BTW, although I have ancient, but still valid, XP OEM licenses for my HP laptop and desktop systems these days I use the TinyXP images available on torrent sites on the rare occasions I do have to re-install XP. The nice thing is those images have a lot of the useless cruft removed and they have all the patches applied up through SP3 and beyond so I don’t have to wait the four to five hours for XP to update itself once installed from my ancient SP1 CDs. I know it is probably pirating from a legal perspective, but from a moral perspective it doesn’t seem that bad since I am licensed to use XP Pro on my two systems.
Do it through that link, and I get a cut.
I did, Rand. Thanks for pointing it out!