Amazon.com: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade: Software This looks like a pretty good deal, but my question is: is it worth the trouble? I'm admittedly not too PC savvy.
I don't think I can upgrade from the Release Candidate 1 version, so I'd have to pay full price. My only valid Windows license is for Windows 98 SE, which won't even run on my current computer--and I lost the registration code anyway.
You can't upgrade from a home flavor of Windows to a business one, not that he'd actually want to in the first place since he'd be paying more to get stuff that he is never going to use.
I've read a lot of positive things about it, such as its cleaner desktop and quickness of web page loading on Explorer, among other things. I don't care too much about operating systems, but if I could squeeze a little bit more life out of my current laptop, I figured $50 isn't too bad.
Depending on your needs, you could possibly squeeze even more life out of it with a good Linux distro for $0. I do like Windows 7 though.
No problems with the version of Vista I'm running, and I don't see that big of a performance boost coming out of it gaming wise anyway.
I wonder if I need a "legit" copy of XP for the upgrade to work. I want to grab W7 at $100 instead of the $300 for Full, but I don't think I've had a legit copy of Windows since 95. Currently running the W7 RC and it is amazing, but my "primary" (I haven't booted into it in months) is XP Pro, non-legit. Then again I might be able to find an old license for XP Home from a parent's old PC. I know it doesn't do an upgrade install anyway, it just verifies you're launching from XP then reboots to install from the disc.
man, this is only for upgrades...no full version discounts. im building my new computer so will be needing a OS... i still might pick up a OEM XP and get the upgrade. Or i might do the MS Vista->7 upgrade option they have...i need to see which will be cheaper.
So does anyone know if the upgrade versions are as half haggard as the Vista Upgrades. The Vista upgrades still used a lot of XP and were inferior to the full release of Vista. I ran the Windows 7 system checker thing and I'm good to go. It does tell me to to a custom clean install though, Implying that I need to do a fresh install of Xp (which I need to do since my PC is getting rather bloated) then the upgrade. I might order it and wait for reviews and more info on how it will work with my system.
Order it and sit on it a while. Wait for the inevitable Service Pack 1, or Rollup Update whatever, before installing it. At least you'll have it, and when it's good to go with all of the updates, tweaks, etc...you'll be ready. I think that's what I'll do. I wasn't planning on getting Windows 7, but considering the low, low price, I can't really beat it. In fact, I think that's the cheapest OS offering from Microsoft, so far. I tried the beta, it was impressive. Not everything worked quite right with it, but it was surprisingly stable for being a beta. I ran program after program without a crash. It was quite impressive, and not a massive resource hog, either.
