Leaked Win7 Upgrade Pricing

That wasn't in direct reference to the BestBuy special but the expected full retail price once those are announced this month. Being the latest version coming out you'll likely end up seeing a few other specials from other chains as well due to the slow economy.

werD said:

MS should sell custom flash drives with Win7 on it :)

I have been wondering when this is coming. Pretty soon DVD drives will go the way of floppy drives. We need USB install sticks.

howied said:

So, for 50 bucks I can upgrade and will not have to reconfigure all my programs and I'll be good to go? That's great if it works!Win 7 is working great for me and I just want to continue without having to reinstall and start all over...much too time consuming to reinstall all of my programs

That will be an Upgrade from Vista SP1 Edition to edition....so if you have Home Premium then you can upgrade to W7 Home Premium....
You won't be able to upgrade from the RC or leaked Versions without a bit of smoke and mirrors....

howied said:

So, for 50 bucks I can upgrade and will not have to reconfigure all my programs and I'll be good to go? That's great if it works!Win 7 is working great for me and I just want to continue without having to reinstall and start all over...much too time consuming to reinstall all of my programs

Everyone here I'm sure will agree with me on this...
When the final version of Windows 7 comes out they along with me WILL do a Clean installation of this operating system to make sure it's the best it can be!!!

Yea, it's a PITA having to re-install all your programs, (for me this is 4 days) drivers, tweaks, etc but it's worth it to have a perfectly working OS with all your programs & drivers working correctly!

I just put a second install of the 64bit RC on here to how things will go under different circumstances. I think the mbr entries ended up on the storage drive and not the array however since that was left plugged despite being in the last port!

Well at least I try unplugging along with the second time for first drive and rebuild the BCD manually. And nothing ever tops a nice clean fresh install of "7"!

mukul said:

Do you mean to say that this method of clean install using Upgrade disk is as good as doing d same from a full disk? Will it complete erase the traces of Vista from my system? Next yr, I don't wanna have Vista traces on a system but have a Windows 7 (probab SP1)

Yes it is Mukul. Check out my post HERE for instructions.

~Lordbob

mukul said:

Then y ppl r willing to spend 5X more for the clean install using full disk. I am assuming that upgrade disk gonna cost 50 bucks n full disk 250.
I did read your post. Thanks for the reference but I am still suspicious.

People don't know about this.....
You have to remember, most people do not know as much about computers as we do.
As for being suspicious, I haven't tried it, so I can't help any there...

~Lordbob