Windows 7 upgrade?

[Veggie]

I'm going to get the Upgrade since you can do a clean install from the Upgrade disk, search google and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Creeping Death]

Introducing WINDOWS 7!!!! NOW WITH MORE PROBLEMS THAN VISTA!!!!!!!!!!

[Ngo]

Introducing WINDOWS 7!!!! NOW WITH MORE PROBLEMS THAN VISTA!!!!!!!!!!

 

Actually, it's a lot better than the POS that was called Vista.

[b0red]

Ughhh i wish i could just upgrade for free, but i have to convince my parents to get the upgrade; also my vista has been BSOD lately so we need to upgrade

[Ngo]

Ughhh i wish i could just upgrade for free, but i have to convince my parents to get the upgrade; also my vista has been BSOD lately so we need to upgrade

 

It should be free for what Vista users had to go through, it was like a 5 year beta that did not end well.

[Italian Jew]

It should be free for what Vista users had to go through, it was like a 5 year beta that did not end well.

 

It is free if you bought a computer between the end of June and the day it came out (or somewhere along those lines). Most PC companies offer the free upgrade and you just need to fill out a form and they'll send you a license.

[Akaru]

It is free if you bought a computer between the end of June and the day it came out (or somewhere along those lines). Most PC companies offer the free upgrade and you just need to fill out a form and they'll send you a license.

 

It should be free regardless of when you bought it. They released Vista knowing it sucked. From what I know, it was a half assed Windows 7. Windows Vista was supposed to be 7, but they wanted to follow their schedule or a new OS every 3 years or so, so they rushed it and it turned to crap.

[Wrathek]

you know very little then, akaru. vista and windows 7 combined is STILL not what they originally planned back then. but to the point, vista does not and did NOT suck. third party companies were lazy and slow at developing new drivers. Microsoft gave them fair warning that they were going to change the kernel architecture VASTLY, but most if not all of them either didn't believe them, or never fathomed how much they would do so.

 

Regardless, it was a change that I find was very necessary, if not ONLY for video card drivers. said drivers are responsible for over 90% of all BSOD's, and vista/win7's kernel does not allow the driver failing to bring down the whole OS as it did before.

 

And even if you refuse to believe that vista actually did not suck, that it was pretty much 100% the 3rd parties' faults, that most other complaints were from people running now-ancient computer components (which makes you wonder why the fuck they changed to vista to begin with); even refusing all of that, it was only a year of bad support MAX. (which, again, was all hardware manufacturer's faults.)

[Akaru]

you know very little then, akaru. vista and windows 7 combined is STILL not what they originally planned back then. but to the point, vista does not and did NOT suck. third party companies were lazy and slow at developing new drivers. Microsoft gave them fair warning that they were going to change the kernel architecture VASTLY, but most if not all of them either didn't believe them, or never fathomed how much they would do so.

 

Regardless, it was a change that I find was very necessary, if not ONLY for video card drivers. said drivers are responsible for over 90% of all BSOD's, and vista/win7's kernel does not allow the driver failing to bring down the whole OS as it did before.

 

And even if you refuse to believe that vista actually did not suck, that it was pretty much 100% the 3rd parties' faults, that most other complaints were from people running now-ancient computer components (which makes you wonder why the fuck they changed to vista to begin with); even refusing all of that, it was only a year of bad support MAX. (which, again, was all hardware manufacturer's faults.)

 

Oh. I learn something new each day.

 

I never thought Vista sucked. I really love Vista because I love shiny new things. Once 7 came out, I would have got it (and did get it) immediately, even if it was like Vista when it was released. Same applied for drivers and software updates; when a new one is released, I get it immediately. Only thing I hated about Vista was the immensive amounts of BSOD. Other than that, I loved Vista. All those people complaining about how Vista sucked never applied to me. To me, Vista was another operating system, except with a new shiny interface/GUI (whatever it's called).

[Wrathek]

thats true. sucks that you had alot of BSODs. until 7, vista was easily the most stable OS i'd ever used. i only had 4 BSOD's over the 4 years i ran the same install of vista, and they were all caused by crappily coded games.