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Microsoft: Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade possible


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Posted 04 February 2009 - 04:34 AM

images/news/windows7.jpgMicrosoft has confirmed that customers can purchase upgrade media and an upgrade license at a discounted price to move from Windows XP to Windows 7. However, customers need to do a clean installation of Windows 7. The pricing details of XP upgrade licenses are not yet known.

An operating system upgrade offers users the option of choosing between in-place upgrades, with installed applications & data in-place in the machine and a fresh installation which overwrites the hard drive's contents. By eliminating in-place upgrades, users can have a reliable installation after backing up all their data and applications. But still considering the huge number of XP systems in use, it is going to be a tedious upgrade as a lot of backup has to be done.

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LOL!!!

Gotta love it :withstupid:

........and I'll say this 'I DO NOT feel sorry for those that bought Vista', you were well warned! :mellow:

Nice, and very clever on MS's part lol.

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Posted 04 February 2009 - 06:42 AM

so i take it your are still using an ms os? so the "once bitten twice shy" workaround doesn't apply here? ah, i'd hate ms to follow a mac idea: 'all your experience belong to us' kinda lock in. win7 is it atm, and does well for me. i would still do vista over xp for any workload...but, of course, you have not ran vista... :withstupid:

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Posted 04 February 2009 - 01:33 PM

What's the upgrade system then?
From any to any? or is it limited?




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