It's only illegal if you don't already own a qualifying product. You may remember when I installed Win7 on this machine I had to call MS. They specifically walked me through installing my upgrade product to a new bare drive. But I was replacing Vista; just not to the same drive.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > Always doing its best to be helpful, M$ wants to let you know that if you > want to install W7 on a new drive you are a dirty rotten crook. > > Windows 7 upgrade 'hacks' not legal, Microsoft suggests > http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/02/windows-7-upgrade-hacks-not-legal.aspx?s=gcndaily_041109 > > "Over the past several days, there have been various posts…[showing] that a > Windows 7 Upgrade disc can perform a 'clean' installation of Windows 7 on a > blank drive from a technical perspective," Ligman wrote last week in a > Microsoft small-to-medium business blog. "Of course, from the posts I saw, > they often forgot to mention a very basic, yet very important, piece of > information.... 'Technically possible' does not always mean legal." > > WFBs will of course take umbrage at the site of us ROTFLOLing, but we just > can't help it. You dirty rotten crooks! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
