Win7 Rocks

[chess]

Originally Posted by GWguy

We were just told this morning that our company will NOT be deploying Vista. EVER. Straight from XP to Win7.

thumbs up !

[BigSlam123b]

Originally Posted by GWguy

We were just told this morning that our company will NOT be deploying Vista. EVER. Straight from XP to Win7.

Does your company know that you can't upgrade XP to Win7? You can only do a clean install. Only Vista is able to be upgraded to Win7.

[BuckinRut]

Originally Posted by BigSlam123b

Does your company know that you can't upgrade XP to Win7? You can only do a clean install. Only Vista is able to be upgraded to Win7.

Or upgrade from 7RC or 7RTM.

[GWguy]

Originally Posted by BigSlam123b

Does your company know that you can't upgrade XP to Win7? You can only do a clean install. Only Vista is able to be upgraded to Win7.

Originally Posted by BuckinRut

Or upgrade from 7RC or 7RTM.

I'm sure they know. We cycle the hardware on a regular basis (40 months), so as the current hardware becomes outdated, any new hardware will be deployed with Win7.

And being as big as we are (125,000 employees) I'm sure they can work out some agreement on "upgrade" costs.

[BigSlam123b]

Microsoft offers free Windows 7 RTM trial

[EmptyTimCup]

Originally Posted by GWguy

We were just told this morning that our company will NOT be deploying Vista. EVER. Straight from XP to Win7.

yeah us as well ....... skipping right over Win Virus ....


of course the development team is having to rewrite all the custom apps.

[MotoX_Dad]

A cool thing with windows 7 is when you have a ton of windows up, you can grab one and hold down the left mouse button and shake the screen (shake your mouse) Try it and report...

[GopherM]

Originally Posted by BigSlam123b

Microsoft offers free Windows 7 RTM trial

Just read this article and the only problem I saw was, the trial period ends in 90 days and if you wish to continue with Windows 7 you will have to do a clean install which will require backing up you data, and reinstalling all software and drivers after loading a fully licensed version of Win 7. They mentioned one tech blogger that said he had found a work around and was able to apply the license key from a purchased version, but upon reading his blog he had scratched through that comment and updated to advise that a clean install was necessary.

[BigSlam123b]

Originally Posted by GopherM

Just read this article and the only problem I saw was, the trial period ends in 90 days and if you wish to continue with Windows 7 you will have to do a clean install which will require backing up you data, and reinstalling all software and drivers after loading a fully licensed version of Win 7. They mentioned one tech blogger that said he had found a work around and was able to apply the license key from a purchased version, but upon reading his blog he had scratched through that comment and updated to advise that a clean install was necessary.

That's why it's trial software. To many companies have had their software cracked if it's a full version in trial mode, as apposed to an actual trial version. You can thank the pirates for the lockdown on the software.

[Velocity26]

Originally Posted by GopherM

Just read this article and the only problem I saw was, the trial period ends in 90 days and if you wish to continue with Windows 7 you will have to do a clean install which will require backing up you data, and reinstalling all software and drivers after loading a fully licensed version of Win 7.

Is this difficult? I have an Acer Aspire laptop with Vista and would like to install W7 after hearing you all talk good about it.

Right now my machine automatically backs up my system to a "D" drive but I'm not sure if it saves my drivers and software or if I would know how to access it.