Star Microsoft 'Details' Windows 7 Upgrades
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 9th Aug 2009 20:49 UTC
Windows While the tech media are all busy praising Windows 7, the operating system still obviously does have issues, it being Windows and all. Because we are talking about Windows, and not, say Ubuntu or Mac OS X, it comes with one big downside that will mostly hit new users of Windows 7 (meaning, everyone): the incredibly complicated upgrade paths.
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by darknexus on Sun 9th Aug 2009 21:15 UTC
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Luckily, more than 95% of the people get Windows via a new computer, so technically it's not that big of a deal.


Shouldn't that be "unfortunately" instead of "luckily?" ;) Couldn't resist. Perhaps, however, this is why Windows in-place upgrading lags so far behind Linux, as it's rarely ever upgraded by the average consumer. They either get it with a new computer, as you point out (and often you need a new computer to satisfy the ridiculous resource bloat the next Windows version brings), or they bring the computer to someone who knows these things... and those people know not to do an in-place upgrade of Windows anyway. It makes me wonder if Microsoft simply doesn't care about this since it's done so infrequently.

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