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Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing | |
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| Time: 11:16 EST/16:16 GMT | News Source: Windows Team Blog | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Most people buy a PC preinstalled with the edition of Windows that meets their unique needs. However, for some customers their needs may change over time. With Windows Anytime Upgrade (or WAU), we make it super easy and convenient for the small number of customers who’s PC needs evolve to need a higher edition of Windows 7. There are a couple of specific situations where we think WAU will prove useful |
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| #1 By 1896 (71.41.126.18) at Friday, July 31, 2009 02:15:00 PM |
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A very well planned operation:
Pro to Ultimate $130.00 Excellent deal indeed. (Sarcasm) On the other hand Starter or Home Basic to Home Premium are not bad deals. This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 14:18. |
| #2 By 1896 (71.41.126.18) at Friday, July 31, 2009 02:15:33 PM |
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Double post. This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 14:16. |
| #3 By 92283 (142.32.208.232) at Friday, July 31, 2009 02:49:08 PM |
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#1 Premium to Ultimate = 139.99
If you bought Premium for 49.99 its makes it 189.98 for Ultimate. Instead of the 319.99 Amazon charges. |
| #4 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at Friday, July 31, 2009 04:53:28 PM |
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Parker,
I understand that the $49 price (which I took advantage of by the way) will only install onto a computer that is loaded with some flavor of windows already installed. I don't believe you can wipe the hard disc and do a clean Win7 install with this upgrade. (I think that is pretty lousy.) I suspect the difference in the $200 v. $300 charge is due to a different licensing agreement. |
| #5 By 92283 (142.32.208.232) at Friday, July 31, 2009 05:04:23 PM |
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#5 Yes, you can do a clean install.
http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Windows-Windows-7/category/102 "If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. You can do a clean install (back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications) or an in-place upgrade (Windows 7 installs over Windows Vista). If you have Windows XP or Windows 2000, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. But you must back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications. " If you don't have Vista you have to a clean install. |
| #6 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Friday, July 31, 2009 05:59:54 PM |
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lord all of this is daffy.
The more Microsoft publishes about this and the more pundits publish about it, more angry and confused the public is going to get. It's dumb... and yeah, I get that most people get Windows on a new PC.... ya ya ya... ok, fine... but what is that... Starter, or Home Premium, or Professional and or Ultimate.... and is that in 32 or x64 bit and what the heck does all that mean... I get also that enterprises are not all the same... well... no kidding, but they're building to a baseline with custom images anyway... so that one is moot. The company needs to sell one box. One product and call it Windows <version blah blah> and stop this stuff. I mean... I know this stuff and make recommendations for customers based upon need and apply ZERO markup on commercial software - so I don't care, I just want them to be happy and if I were not in this business, I'd be pulling my hair out, or heading to the Apple store waving a white flag. It's bad enough MS is shooting themselves with this, but dang... shooting your customers??? OK... |
| #7 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at Friday, July 31, 2009 10:19:48 PM |
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Parker,
Thanks for the info. |
| #8 By 143 (96.28.64.244) at Saturday, August 01, 2009 04:47:42 PM |
| Clean installs are important if your slipstreaming a service pack. If you have a upgrade your out of luck on slipstreaming. |
