Upgrade From W7 Beta RC??

xzener said:

Will the Windows 7 upgrade allow me to upgrade from Windows 7 Beta RC???

Beta= version 7000 no should already have timed out
RC=7100 yes. as long as its the same version. 7100 is ultimate, you would then need 7600 ultimate. anything else wont work


Ken

@zigzag

I assume when you say it requires 7600 ultimate to upgrade, you are referring specifically to an "in-place upgrade". Shouldn't I still be able to use a 7600 Professional Upgrade disc to do a custom install over the RC? Just like if I was running Vista Ultimate 32-bit, upgrading to Win7 Ultimate 64-bit, I couldn't do an in-place upgrade with the upgrade disc, but I could still use the upgrade disc to do a custom install.

I am almost certain what I said above is in fact the reality of the situation. My real question is this. If I choose to use my Win7 Upgrade disc to upgrade my machine currently running the RC, when, inevitably, sometime in the future (say 1 year from now), I decide to do a clean install, will I be able to, at that time, install a old copy of XP I have, then upgrade that with my Win7 upgrade. What I am asking is, will upgrading from the RC forever tie my Upgrade copy of Win7 to that RC cd-key, or will I be able to use another older Windows version as the "base OS" of a future upgrade when the RC will have long-since expired?

Thanks!

You can't do an in-place upgrade from 7100 ultimate to the RTM ultimate, probably for safety reasons to keep the install pure. But 7100 RC is a qualifying OS to use the Upgrade version of the DVD, whether it is professional or whatever(no in-place upgrades).

Which words are used can get confusing in this current release.