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So this "free windows 7 upgrade" isnt free afterall...you're paying for 7.]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
That said, I found the jump from Vista to 7 to be a lot easier than XP to Vista in terms of AD / Roaming etc...]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 8th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
Congrats. You just broke the law.]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
We're in a recession. Businesses don't want to spend the time and money to upgrade them to be Vista/7 compatible.]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
In America maybe, but not in the free world. ;)]]>Apr 7th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
It's not evil; it's business, and it's fair (for the cost of an OEM license compared to a retail boxed license).]]>Apr 7th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Just so you know, using that license from the side of the computer is not illegal. You did already pay for it, and you are able to use it on other computers, but of course, only one computer at a time. This in no way violates any form of law or Microsoft rules.
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If you buy a retail copy, yes. You are correct. If you bought a computer with an OEM license and a sticker on the side, it IS NOT transferal to any other machine EVER.]]>Apr 7th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Until that day removing the license from a computer that you own is NOT illegal. As in you are not breaking a law and no the cops will not arrest you for it. this is in the same vein as breaking a NDA. You can be held liable for it, you aren't going to be arrested.]]>Apr 8th 2009 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
VISTA filled me with pure unadulterated rage for that entire month I put up with it before downgrading back down to XP, but 7 is really really good.]]>Apr 7th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
To summarise: he's right, you're wrong.]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
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Microsoft should have been clearer about what people were getting for their money and I'd suggest that people don't spend their money with Microsoft in the future without knowing that. At least then you will have an enforceable complaint if the company fails to deliver what you paid for.]]>Apr 7th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
Your car analogies are like saying i have a Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive and the company comes out with a new computer in the same case with a Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB hard drive and i want to upgrade to the Core 2 Quad computer free cause its better components in the same case

Car =/ Computer in terms of software analogies.]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/Apr 7th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
dual booting won't work for long term... it's like you say monday you run XP and tuesday you use 7 -- you'll have to stick with one OS eventually.]]>Apr 8th 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
Its still doesnt match OSX in my opinion but its a great effort by Microsoft. They have to deal with so many more variables and whingers which makes drastic changes to their OS almost impossible without causing chaos.

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Which is it Ballmer? The economy dictates that you shouldn't spend money on frivolous things like a $700 graphics card -- or -- "It's 2009, time to leave XP in the past"?]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/microsoft-hoping-for-win-7-upgraders-reluctantly-allowing-downg/
I forget how long XP has been out by now, but it is sure as hell archaic. The whole point of windows 7 is that its not meant to be quite so resource hungry as Vista - hell my NC10 runs it like a dream.
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