Seems most are not mentioning upgrading from XP to 7 would be like asking Apple to do a straight upgrade from os 9 to 10.6. All your programs and settings too...why can't I run that program I've been running since system 7 on 10.5??
Some of the xp'ers out there are undoubtedly still running crap that they were using on 95 or 98...and now they want to upgrade to an OS written 8-10 years later, an os that is probably going to go from being 32 to 64bit and still expect to run everything they used to. That being said, generally speaking Apple has it all over windows in the upgrade area, going from 10.3 to .4 or .5 is flawless and easy. You can't say that if you are going from vista to 7, MS has never put the time in to make this work nearly as well. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Art Clemons <[email protected]> wrote: > > The cheapo Win7 releases at Best Buy seem to be 50 and 100 for upgrades. > I > > heard it was from Vista only. > > Apparently you can "upgrade" from XP, only thing is that win 7 will not > use your apps and settings, it will instead make your old windows folder > into something that is saved (you likely can boot from it too). Then a > new windows 7 installation is made. Considering all of the crud, I'm > not sure that upgrades keeping old settings and software are really the > way to go anyway. > > I note incidentally that I don't normally run any version of Windows > anymore. I have however played with Win7, it appears to be the best > Windows version yet (what do I know, I thought WFWG 3.11 was the best > way back when too), > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
