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Other Operating Systems => Windows 7 | Windows 9 => Topic started by: riso on February 19, 2009, 08:53:31 PM

Title: Free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7
Post by: riso on February 19, 2009, 08:53:31 PM

PC makers to provide free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 starts at July 1.
Source @Ms.
 
Microsoft’s ,tech ARP is reporting that the  Windows Vista PCs purchased by end users between July 1, 2009 through TBD (to be determined)” would qualify for the Windows 7 Tech Guarantee program.

The following are the upgrade paths:

Windows Vista  Home Premium -> Windows 7 Home Premium

Windows Vista Business -> Windows 7 Professional

Windows Vista Ultimate -> Windows 7 Ultimate

More news to follow on this,

riso
January 18

Title: Re: Free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7
Post by: thenanoguy on March 02, 2009, 08:29:42 AM

i think the upgrade won't give you the real taste of win7 as the old os  junk will remain on the partition
a clean install is recommended and it won't bite
upgrade is the solution for those that don't have an hour to stay and manage the clean install
and the upgrade is slower,always slower

Title: Re: Free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7
Post by: anykey on March 02, 2009, 02:04:29 PM

I would never do an upgrade.
I always choose to do a clean install.
And I recommend to others to do the same and go for a clean fresh installation every time.
With an upgrade you are bound to have rubbish left lying around from your legacy installation.

In any case I have no vista. Never touched it. Don't intend to now either  ;)

Title: Re: Free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7
Post by: thenanoguy on March 02, 2009, 02:08:43 PM

good to see you agreeing with me
we can actually make a list of the problems that may appear after an apparantely succesful upgrade ;D ;D
everyone reading this topic just do a little googling around and you will see that fresh install is always better than the upgrade
it seems very logical to me ;)

Title: Re: Free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7
Post by: hannahsh on March 05, 2009, 11:50:40 AM

a fresh install may well be the techies approach and sound all good and well BUT sometimes people just cant be bothered to reinstall everything. Yes I agree legacy and old files will still be there, but an upgrade should replace all important parts and have you up and running in qucik time. However as many of us know to our cost, now an upgrade or reinstall tends to default the system to the same as a clean install and all user details are cleared - not good.

I would always advice a clean build, you then know its not something else in the background should there be problems and if its not your pc you dont want to sort out other gremlins users might have with spurous apps - we all know the tricks they pull - it worked before !!!???** oh yes sure

Title: Re: Free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7
Post by: javajolt on March 06, 2009, 06:05:27 AM

i am glad to see everybody thinks a clean install is the best way to go.

javajolt