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SoftJock Rick

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In 2 hours, and about 20 minutes -- Win 7 releases :sqbiggrin:

It's about time you XP folks upgrade from Stone Age 1, to Hyper World :)


Put the horsey's out to pasture, park the carriage, and lets rock into the new world :sqcool: :sqbiggrin:
 
SoftJock Rick said:
In 2 hours, and about 20 minutes -- Win 7 releases :sqbiggrin:

It's about time you XP folks upgrade from Stone Age 1, to Hyper World :)


Put the horsey's out to pasture, park the carriage, and lets rock into the new world :sqcool: :sqbiggrin:
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Didnt' get in on the preorder so I'm going to wait a month or two for any bugs to get ironed out. It's shame that there's no direct upgrade path from XP though.

Making the jump to 64-bit myself which will also require a full reinstall. I love a fresh install and do them often enough but it'd nice for most folks if an upgrade in place could be done.
 
SoftJock Rick said:
If you use Vista, you can upgrade in place :)

I've done a few -- easy as pie :sqbiggrin:
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Considering all that changes is the splash screen on boot it shouldn't be too complicated :sqwink:
 
For my Dj lappys I'm good with XP until windows 8, maybe 9 :sqbiggrin:
 
Yup got Vista 32 bit. According to what I've read both from Microsoft and www.SevenForums.com (great Windows forum BTW) you're still eligible to purchase the upgrade but will need to do a fresh install if going from 32 to 64.

Check out this chart:
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My question is if your wiping you HD for the fresh install.. How do they know you're upgrading? :sqerr: and does this mean I'll have to reinstall Vista every time I want to do a fresh install of W7 from that DVD? :eek:

I'm actually glad to get the upgrade and have to fresh install I can get skip all the crap from my OEM image.

Rick -- Any real reason for me to go to Ultimate from Home Premium?
 

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Big Dan said:
Rick -- Any real reason for me to go to Ultimate from Home Premium?
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Well, this forum is open... :sqwink:

Even though I get all this stuff free, I do purchase copies for my home stuff. Do I purchase Ultimate? Depends on that machine, and what I use it for.

I think Home Premium works well for most folks (I would go with 64 bit). Pro is for businesses, and is well suited for that, in a networked environment. Ultimate, has it all.


Whether you need Ultimate, is sorta up in the air. Power users like myself, will want it.


Most folks can probably work well with Home Premium or Pro.
 
CMWAT said:
i guess i'll wait for the bugs to be ironed out,and we know they always exist.
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No worries Colin -- this is the most stable OS in generations.

If you break it -- it's yer fault.
 
Looking at the reports and seeing the OS run in Beta I don't see any real major difference in Vista and 7. It seems like a spit and polish on Vista like ME was to 98.

Sell me on why I should upgrade Rick
 
Jeff Romard said:
Looking at the reports and seeing the OS run in Beta I don't see any real major difference in Vista and 7. It seems like a spit and polish on Vista like ME was to 98.

Sell me on why I should upgrade Rick
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I'm not a salesman Jeff :)

But, I will say this honestly.

Many people (not naming anybody in particular), have no business using a computer in the first place. Vista was designed to help folks, who can't spell the word YOU, they use U.

They didn't like that -- so we gave them back U.

We also put the F before it :sqwink: :sqbiggrin:


The design room said, screw it -- let them f__k themselves up (hence, FU)


Hey, U asked, and U got an answer. We call it Win 7 -- yer on yer own now... :sqwink: :sqlaugh:
 
When all the programs i use are stable on 64 bit i'll upgrade...

Especially VDJ.

Of course, I bet Rockit runs super on 64 bit machines??
 
Precisionpower said:
What are you running now Rob??
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32 bit vista only because Karma doesn't work on 64 bit yet... and I've had VDJ on the 32 bit RC version of 7 and it worked fine there too.... I can only assume that it will work on the 64 bit version just as well as it did on the 64 bit version of Vista.
 
SoftJock Rick said:
I'm not a salesman Jeff :)

But, I will say this honestly.

Many people (not naming anybody in particular), have no business using a computer in the first place. Vista was designed to help folks, who can't spell the word YOU, they use U.

They didn't like that -- so we gave them back U.

We also put the F before it :sqwink: :sqbiggrin:


The design room said, screw it -- let them f__k themselves up (hence, FU)


Hey, U asked, and U got an answer. We call it Win 7 -- yer on yer own now... :sqwink: :sqlaugh:
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You must have got that straight from "Uncle Fester" Ballmer :sqlaugh:

What I am gathering is you are saying without saying there is no real reason to upgrade aside from helping MS get a little more
 
Sorry, but have zero need to dump XP.

It is the most stable system I have ever been on and will most likely not upgrade to anything until I am forced too because I can't get XP anywhere again.
 
Precisionpower said:
Of course, I bet Rockit runs super on 64 bit machines??
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It's built on 64 bit Vista :)


What I am gathering is you are saying without saying there is no real reason to upgrade aside from helping MS get a little more
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I'm upgrading all my machines. XP has left the building :)
 
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