Leaked Win7 Upgrade Pricing

[Snufffed]

Upgrades are cheaper than Full Retail or OEM

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

It works, honest injun. Vista upgrade disks from BEST BUY ' Ultimate" was @259.99. you rec'd both x64 and x86 disk.
and as for "UPGRADES" I personally have upgraded every version from -clean install 7000 to currently 7137. It is easy. works perfect, I have NO PROBLEMs at this time... so 7000 clean, 7022 upg, 7044 upg, 7058 upgr, 7077,7106 upg, 7127 upg, 7137 upg. I also installed and tested the Pro-leak release via mod to Ult. open sources and read howto upgrade. it is on every leak and official release.

 

[theshowmecanuck]

No, I think it still works. Some one needs to test it here.....

~Lordbob

And if it does, MS will make sure it doesn't any more with all the talk about it here. Me, I don't care one way or the other. Being software contractor, I decided a long time ago it wasn't worth pirating. Nothing like a client's audit software finding pirated stuff on their network, and coming from your own laptop.

 

[Snufffed]

UPgrades are LEGIT

And if it does, MS will make sure it doesn't any more with all the talk about it here. Me, I don't care one way or the other. Being software contractor, I decided a long time ago it wasn't worth pirating. Nothing like a client's audit software finding pirated stuff on their network, and coming from your own laptop.

How can a UPGRADE Disk be considered Pirate Stuff, MS sells UPDATE copies from there WEBSITE.

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[Lordbob75]

And if it does, MS will make sure it doesn't any more with all the talk about it here. Me, I don't care one way or the other. Being software contractor, I decided a long time ago it wasn't worth pirating. Nothing like a client's audit software finding pirated stuff on their network, and coming from your own laptop.

It's not pirating. M$ put it in there on purpose. Don't know why, but thats what it is....

~Lordbob

 

[Night Hawk]

The last time I used an upgrade disk not counting an XP recovery as well to see a full install was with an old 95 upgrade where you booted from a 3 1/2" floppy and selected the "start with cd rom support" option. And that was a move up from a set of 6 floppies for 3.1! still sitting in the case after all these years!

Even with the 98SE disk being a full version the boot from floppy was never sloppy!

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

This thread lost me half way through it.

I love the upgrade disks though, I had an upgrade copy of Vista Home Premium (x64) that I got from a friend that couldn't use x64, I didn't think I'd be able to use it but it works wonders for clean installs. =P

 

[Rich Hackney]

Upgrade

It works, honest injun. Vista upgrade disks from BEST BUY ' Ultimate" was @259.99. you rec'd both x64 and x86 disk.
and as for "UPGRADES" I personally have upgraded every version from -clean install 7000 to currently 7137. It is easy. works perfect, I have NO PROBLEMs at this time... so 7000 clean, 7022 upg, 7044 upg, 7058 upgr, 7077,7106 upg, 7127 upg, 7137 upg. I also installed and tested the Pro-leak release via mod to Ult. open sources and read howto upgrade. it is on every leak and official release.

Same way for me - I have only did one clean install when I messed up a buld - my error, not Win 7.

 

[howied]

7100

I still have the 7100 build...it runs GREAT! Should I upgrade, or just wait for the REAL DEAL? And if I decide to upgrade...what do I need to do? Thanks!

 

[Lordbob75]

I still have the 7100 build...it runs GREAT! Should I upgrade, or just wait for the REAL DEAL? And if I decide to upgrade...what do I need to do? Thanks!

I'm still running 7100 as well. I am going to wait for the RTM before doing a new install.

~Lordbob

 

[Win7User512]

I'm still running 7100 as well. I am going to wait for the RTM before doing a new install.

~Lordbob

I agree. I think 7100 is as close to the release as I need to be. It runs very well, has corrected the bugs I experienced on 7000, and is stable.

 

[steele84]

So will we be able to activate our RC versions of Ultimate without a new install. I've been customizing like crazy and don't really want to do it again with the retail comes out. Thanks

 

[Snufffed]

But to boot from 6 floppies was so slow, make a hidden directory \Win31 copy all the files from 6 floppies then make 6 dir disk 1, thru disk 6, then when a customer had a problem you simply went over and clicked \dos typed cd win31 started and viola it was really fast to repair. ahhhhhhhhhhh for the good old slower than syrup days.
I do remember when windows 3.1 was an upgrade disk.

 

[mukul]

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

You haven't tried it?:shock:
Let me wait for someone to try it. Then I'll surely give it a shot.
I don't have Vista installation disk (got it pre-installed) so can't try.

 

[Night Hawk]

I agree. I think 7100 is as close to the release as I need to be. It runs very well, has corrected the bugs I experienced on 7000, and is stable.

I presently finishing off a second install of the 64bit RC on another drive to keep two working copies going under different circumstances. Once 7 is out I'll have a few ideas on how things will be setup for that.

 

[howied]

Thanks you guys...I will wait also...if it ain't broke...as they say...

Thanks Again!

 

[Lordbob75]

You haven't tried it?:shock:
Let me wait for someone to try it. Then I'll surely give it a shot.
I don't have Vista installation disk (got it pre-installed) so can't try.

When I get my Technet Sub, I will DL an upgrade disk and test it out.

~Lordbob

 

[Night Hawk]

When I get my Technet Sub, I will DL an upgrade disk and test it out.

~Lordbob

The downloads from TN Plus would be full install images only there mainly for testing with the exception of the RCs.

 

[sarwiz]

Actually did an upgrade from vista here and running perfectly. 1 month old laptop that vista crashed on so many times, I had installed Ubuntu just to be able to use this thing. Dl'ed and installed 7 about 2 weeks ago, and I really think they (MS) got it right this time. They should offer a discount to anyone that got stuck with vista ('cause is sux that bad). I personally feel that vista was an unviable and renown failure, But 7 has redeemed them somewhat. Still an old XPSP3 junkie (have even Beta tested sp1 and 2) and really might just upgrade that computer too. Right now, we have 2 laptops running 7, 1 running vista (that we are giving away as a gift soon), and 3 desktops and a 10 year old PIII laptop running XPSP3. (Also still have a Win 98 machine, just for the hell of it). All machines except 2 run a dual boot setup with either anothe MS os or a linux os. We were really disappointed with vista , to the point that my wife was even getting into linux, but kind of glad to give this w 7 another try. Just really would like to see ms do something for the vista sufferers. Just a bit of a rant. THanks for listening( oops, reading)

 

[Night Hawk]

The problem with Vista isn't that it's not a good stable version but simply Windows growing too large! The drastic improvements seen with 7 can be attributed to the recoding from the ground up as seen with the new MinWin kernel.

Without a constantly growing in size core the overall performance increase is noted more so on older systems even more. Despite using a bit more drive space then Vista once on the most noticable item is how fast the installation proceeds even over 98! It always took some 40-50minutes on average to reach the desktop for the first time now seen in only 20-25minutes!

 

[Lordbob75]

I like Seven so much better than Vista, that I ordered my new laptop with a blank HDD. Just for Seven.

Now I will have two comps on seven (when my laptop comes), which will be great for learning about networking and such.

~Lordbob