Comments on: Eyes down for Windows 7 upgrade bingo

By: Dave D

Dave D — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:39:59 +0000

A response from Microsoft today:-
“Although the provided licenses of Windows 7 … are full licenses and you can install them onto empty machines those machines must first be in possession of a license for either Windows Vista or Windows XP.”
I just wondered what an empty machine was in Microsoft terms.

By: Simon Peters

Simon Peters — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:34:17 +0000

I think that Microsoft need to wake up and smell the coffee. The best minds on the planet (allegedly) provide us with the (allegedly, again)worlds best OS and they can’t even get their upgrade charts right. C’mon Steve – get the house in order !!

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:29:18 +0000

Theres always the cversion.ini cludge available to force an install on ‘incompatible’ versions although using this to go from XP to 7 may be too much for the installer to cope with. I’m gonna try this method as I’m going for 7RC to 7RTM which should work ok. I’d like to go 64bit but think running any games on it would suffer until they are 64bit too.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:50:20 +0000

It is incredible to think of the amount of time and cost that will ensue from all the thousands of business computers who have waited with XP on them that will have to do a clean install rather than an upgrade. Obviously this cost will be past onto the consumer which in this economic climate is not good. Agreed a fresh install is always best but we must consider the time and costs overall.

By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:39:36 +0000

As David Pogue pointed out earlier, whoever sent out that slide should be shot!

There never was a 64-bit Starter version of Vista!

Whether I could do in place upgrade or not, I’d wipe and do a full install anyway…

By: MerseyMal (aka malfranks2)

MerseyMal (aka malfranks2) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:31:21 +0000

I’ll be moving to Windows 7 64 bit from Vista 32 bit.

Even if it was upgradeable I’d start from scratch as I generally like to take the opportunity to a) upgrade to a larger hard drive and b) start afresh when upgrading.