Microsoft to offer free Windows 7 upgrade to [limited] Vista users

garysgold · 13 Feb 2009

There will probably be a lower priced upgrade path for Vista users. Probably not free though.

Gary

jbosa1 · 13 Feb 2009

Shoundn't it be the other way around...we get paid to use it...I mean...you only pay for something you want, ehh?

Microsoft wants us to use it and we do anything to avoid it...thats WHY ubunto is a HIT!

and that in spite that Ubunto, like so many other Linux distros, is pure GREEK for the normal user (whatever THAT is!)...if you install Ubunto you're not normal, just desperat looking for something that acually works...

and Linux dosen't work (unless you're so cleaver you got in on papper) as it should work...Windows does work but very, very SLOW...

That is...Windows Vista, I will say nothing against Windows XP...now that's an superb OP...the best realese yet from Microsoft and the big reason we hope so much that Windows 7 will be like XP...a superb op

That is what I hope for the beta version...

sevsman · 13 Feb 2009

Well i personally would prefer it if 7 is more like vista than xp. There's to many people out there that don't remember how buggy xp was until pretty much SP2.

I thnk most of the complaints people have about vista is compatability issues with hardware that they have. Well it's not supprising that 6 year old hardware wouldn't play nice with a fresh OS.

And as for all the problems that won't be there during the upgrade to 7, this is predominantly due to either the fact that people have upgraded when installing vista or the compatability setting is better due to the fact that it has been further refined than it was in vista.

Infact the only reason i use 7 is because i'm an absolute sucker for new things and even worse for eye candy. I never had a problem with vista even when it was RC. The only time i had issues was when it was in Beta, and there were many people having the same problems as me, and this was mainly due to the fact that vista was built from the bottom up and required new hardware that was designed to do the things that were being asked of it...

So being truthfull, how many people had big issues that where so bad even a hardware upgrade wasn't able to fix them? Not many i expect....

And jbosa1 please don't take this the wrong way, but your notebook is an entry level notebook, so vista would be a little slow on that...

ambientmf · 13 Feb 2009

sevsman said:

Well i personally would prefer it if 7 is more like vista than xp. There's to many people out there that don't remember how buggy xp was until pretty much SP2.

This laptop I have is a laptop my college provided me with and of course, the school image is running XP Pro.

I totally agree with you, Windows 7 is magnitudes more stable than XP ever has been.
Hell, even AFTER SP2.

The only complaint I have with Windows 7 is my issues with x64, which is my fault anyways because I only have 2 GBs of RAM.