William Anderson wrote: > Steve wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from >> vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the >> usual couple of pints to sort the mess out. >> > > From what I've heard, upgrading from Vista to 7 RC is pretty straight > forward ... > > -n > But Windows 7 RC isn't a retail release. In Europe Windows 7 E won't have an upgrade option... - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3174
To quote the blog... "As my blogging colleague Ed Bott notes, it’s a case of good news and bad news for users in Europe <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1096>. The good: European customers will be able to buy a full retail version of Windows 7 E at the same price as the usually cheaper upgrade version, at least for the rest of this year. (*The fine print: “Upgrade price available for full editions of retail packaged product until at least Dec. 31, 2009.”*) The bad: There will be no upgrade version for Windows 7 E users, and they will have to do a clean install in order to put Windows 7 E on their systems. The reasoning for no Windows 7 E upgrade seems to be that there isn’t an equivalent version of Vista — with Internet Explorer removed — from which European users could/should upgrade." So it's good that you're getting a retail version at upgrade prices (which means you'll hopefully be able to transfer the license from one machine to another) but you'll have to do a clean install. That's not to say that someone might work out how to do an upgrade, or release a utility to make reinstalling easier. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
