You can always download windows 7 service pack 1 for free and install it, and then get Microsoft updates :)
A better alternative is to make a disk with service pack 1 already installed. This is called slipstreaming. You can download a legit windows 7 image here:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/offici...digital-river/
Our guide:
Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7
As long as this computer works, I'll use it ... with Windows 7.
When it dies I'll get a new one ... and the new one might run Windows 8, or 9, or 10. But Windows 7 will be history by then.
LOL. Just download the SP1 U media refresh iso of the correct edition and language.
Windows 7 Direct Download Links, Official Disk Images ... - HeiDoc.net
You can update the install media quite easily. I do it regularly.
Plenty of tools will do it for you, this is nice and small
WindowsPatchLoader_v1.0.15.zip
Or this one does more, it even deals with the iso for you, saves you doing that part manually.
Download Windows Hotfix Downloader 7.4
Until sometime in 2019. I've already paid for three retail copies and I don't see in any point in upgrading until I get my money's worth from them, even if M$ comes out with a better OS than Win 7. The only exception is if my computer dies before 2019 and the hardware available then won't run on Win 7.
I have COA's for 3 vers of XP, 2 vers of Vista, 3 vers of 7, 2 vers of 8 and looking forward to 9. I recently moved my Win 3.11 and 95 media to storage, XP is still good for old equipment.
I have 8.1 on my LT and tablet, as I become more comfortable with this OS I'll move it to my desk tops. It is much faster than 7, very stable and with a "desk top" add-on, looks and feels like 7.
Will be using XP for however long it takes...got to much invested in this...and the same with Win 7....unless i can get a good deal with Win 9,like i did with Win 7..
I bought a new laptop last year when Win 8 came out. I wanted to make sure I got a laptop with Win 7 on it. I don't want to stay with the latest release but with the BEST release of Windows. == In answer to the poll, I doubt if I will ever have anything else on my PC. At some point I think MS will wake up and realize that they have a good thing in Win 7.
I've already moved on to 8.1 on all my PC's, but only because I have a free TechNet/MSDN subscription. Otherwise I'd still be running 7 on my two desktop PC's. My laptop and my wife's laptop came with 8 preinstalled. It wouldn't bother me to go back to 7 on my desktop if my TechNet keys expired. I'd have to relearn a few things but it wouldn't be the end of the world. 7 is a great OS.
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