> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:58 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Micro$oft Does It Again > > Well as if the stupid licensing crap that we have been discussing isn't > enough, Micro$oft has found another way to screw users and get us to cough > up more $$ if we want to upgrade our OS. Seems that Vista Upgrade HAS to > have a current copy of Windows running on the computer. You cannot do a
I usually don't spend time responding to people that go overboard with the shift+4 but... ;^) While it is annoying to power users it shouldn't affect general users in the least - they're going to either get Vista on their machine or upgrade as recommended. So, we're left with power users - people like us (I presume). For these people things aren't nearly as bleak as they might seem: When doing an upgrade you can still choose to do a "clean" install. This install (available from the "Custom" options) backs up the old OS and installs Vista with none of its resources. You can later, of course eliminate the backed-up OS. As for the annoyance of installing a previous OS I feel the pain - but still see some of the point. As I understand it MS wants to tie the upgrade key more closely to the upgraded OS. I'm sure YOU never would, but some people actually install a new OS while continuing to use the OLD OS on another machine! Or just plain give away the old OS while keeping a copy of the disc just for upgrade installs. This makes that just a little harder and definitely more annoying. (Although if you WANT an easier way out remember that Vista can also be used to upgrade Windows 2000 installations - which don't have the activation and driver issues and have a much quicker, smaller install than XP. I've not tried it but I wouldn't be surprised if you could also upgrade from Win95.) In short this will be annoying, but not to many and not in any truly troublesome way. You have to spend some extra time installing the previous OS before you can do a clean install - that's it. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226248 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
