TechARP has updated the Windows 7 Upgrade Program schedule with some slight changes. According to the new schedule Windows update program will begin on June 28, 2009 instead of July 1, 2009 which Neowin sighted earlier, and users who purchase PCs preinstalled with Vista between the dates June 28, 2009 - January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade.Microsoft will allow only 5 upgrade requests from eligible end users (consumers or small businesses) to upgrade to Windows 7. This means that a user with 12 upgrade coupons will have to visit the fulfillment website at least 3 times to order all 12 upgrades. However, a maximum of 25 upgrades are allowed for each qualifying end user's mailing address. Customers with more than 25 PCs are encouraged to opt for a Volume License.
Microsoft had already confirmed that customers can purchase upgrade media and an upgrade license at a discounted price to move from Windows XP to Windows 7. Users with a Windows XP Downgrade license can also now upgrade to Windows 7. However, Microsoft to its corporate customers, still recommends an upgrade to Vista before Windows 7.
But for users who wish to downgrade to Vista from Windows 7 (which I think many users wont), they will have to uninstall Windows 7 and re-install Vista using the Windows Vista recovery media recovery solution which is provided by the OEMs when users purchase a new Vista PC.
If you are looking to upgrade your Windows Vista to Windows 7 beta, you can read our upgrade process overview here
That depends on how the end users interpret it. They did this with Vista as well, but the end user interpreted it as a desparate move to get the "failing" OS out the door. Regardless this is obviously a good business move, while it will cost them (financially) it will help grow the initial install base quickly. It will be interesting to see how quickly 7 overtakes Vista's market share.
Well, they are going to be releasing an anti-virus program for free sometime in the future
Maybe they're starting to have a change of heart?
.. yea, this was never meant to be funny
Last edited by timster on 23 Feb 2009 - 01:28
I do have a sense of humour, but I really don't understand why someone would make such a comment
Last time I did it for Vista and most of the actual contact was done via HP Sales besides the actual claim form itself. Confirmations and that came from HP however.
So it *may* apply to refurbs if the company selling you the system is participating AND their participation covers refurbs.
Quite the opposite, Vista is too simplistic, too slow and annoyingly trying to be slick, XP just does the job.
There's nothing I can't do in XP that Vista would do for me apart from doing it slower.
i'm really over this whole vista is worse than xp business from noobs who know nothing.
vista > xp
keep living in the xp era
That is a very strong comment. Maybe you have some reasons for this view?
i tried the beta on my xps 1530 and everything worked out the box, i was very pleased, same goes for an older acer 5630, originally 'vista premium ready' runs great, minus the sleep issues which have already been noted by MS
wish i could get 7 with some discount but i'm not too disheartened, vista sp1 has been great to me so far... 0 BSOD in 11 months, well there were about 10, but those were brought on by myself and tinkering around
Last edited by artfuldodga on 23 Feb 2009 - 06:15
It's like this for a reason, it's not a witch hunt.
I use both Vista & XP, I know both very well and it's obvious XP is a faster system, and it's obvious Vista is a more secure system.
The fact is, for most machines I use, XP does it better, I have no reasons for wanting to use Vista, no incentive.
Sure, for a noob user, I'd say get Vista - ideal for them, but advanced users, coders etc - I know very few that use Vista.
Windows 7 looks like the answer, can't wait to try it and hope I see some improvements over XP
I think it's pretty funny that people condemn Vista but are so quick to embrace Windows 7, particularly since it's a hell of a lot closer to Vista than it is to XP.
And, I know many developers who use Vista!
Personally, I'm happy with Vista. The only way that I've experienced it being "slower" is that it seems to take up to 500MB more RAM than my XP laptop did - definately not good, but with 4GB I rarely notice. From what I hear 7 is going to fix this issue. As for reason to use Vista - the #1 for me is ubiquitous search. I'm quickly frustrated using XP anymore because I can't search from the start menu, control panel, explorer windows...etc. Other than that, I like the look better, it has some nice features for laptops, I actually like UAC, it seems more stable overall.
For me, there's no "big reason" to use Vista - just a lot of little ones. Although I can see that for some people there is a big reason not to - 500MB RAM can be a deal breaker to some.
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