Free Upgrade To Win 7 For New PC's With Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate.

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Harvey

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Shamelessly gripped from BPH789's post on Fatwallet. :thumbsup: :cool:

If you're in the market for a new PC, you may want to wait until June 26. "Information Week" reports that Microsoft will allow free upgrades to Win 7 for PC's purchased with Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate between June 26 to October 22. The offer does not apply to PC's with Vista Basic.

Vista-To-Windows 7 Free Upgrades Start June 26

Consumers who buy a Vista PC prior to Oct. 22 get Windows 7 gratis, internal memo states.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
June 8, 2009 12:13 PM

Consumers who purchase a Vista-based computer on or after June 26 will be allowed to upgrade to Windows 7 for free, according to a leaked corporate memo from electronics retailer Best Buy (NYSE: BBY).

The memo states that Best Buy (and presumably its competitors) will launch a "Technology Guarantee" program on June 26, under which anyone who purchases a PC running Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate can install Windows 7 at no extra charge when the latter becomes available Oct. 22.
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Ah, I am in the market for a new laptop. I guess I'll wait a few weeks. There is really nothing wrong with my current laptop anyway.
 
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Obviously, this doesn't include the free versions of Vista Ultimate (x86 and x64) I got from a TechNet thing a while back, does it? They were just OEM discs.
 
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obviously.

even more so the deal is they can't get the current machines to have SLP2 for win7 so they will give you a single key for win7. which isn't as nice as having slp2 for win7 since that gives you other benefits.

 
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Outlet machines come with whatever OS license was originally sold on the machine. All machines sold after June 26 will include the Win7 option and that should stay with the machine if it is returned. IOW, look for Win7 upgrade eligible machines in the Outlet starting in late July.
 
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Just a heads up-if this program is like when they introduced Vista, there will be a shipping charge ($10 back then). More significantly it took me a good two-three months to receive my new operating system after it was already on the market. You are not a priority customer then, just a prior obligation (HP was my vendor).
 
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I don't know about the others but Technet Plus is a subscription program with Microsoft for technical implementers that includes evaluation copies of OS products. As far as I know, the licenses are not for production work.
 
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GREAT. Microsoft hasn't gotten Vista even close to being a good stable operating system and now we get the Seventh Microsoft POS.

The microsoft tootsie pop.

How many service packs does it take.........

I'll stick with XP for a while.
 
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Originally posted by: Macgyversite
GREAT. Microsoft hasn't gotten Vista even close to being a good stable operating system and now we get the Seventh Microsoft POS.

The microsoft tootsie pop.

How many service packs does it take.........

I'll stick with XP for a while.
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Vista works great.

 
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technically its free.. so.. should this not go into the free stuff forum?



 
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Originally posted by: Macgyversite
GREAT. Microsoft hasn't gotten Vista even close to being a good stable operating system and now we get the Seventh Microsoft POS.

The microsoft tootsie pop.

How many service packs does it take.........

I'll stick with XP for a while.
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This is very true, if you are still living in Q2, 2007. Otherwise, no a word of it is accurate.
 
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Originally posted by: IlllI
technically its free.. so.. should this not go into the free stuff forum?
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No.You have to buy a PC to get it.

 
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Harvey

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Originally posted by: Macgyversite
GREAT. Microsoft hasn't gotten Vista even close to being a good stable operating system and now we get the Seventh Microsoft POS.

The microsoft tootsie pop.

How many service packs does it take.........

I'll stick with XP for a while.
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Microsoft occaisionally issues these brain fart OS's, after which, they eventually get much closer to getting it right. Previous examples are DOS 4 and Win ME. They finally got DOS right with DOS 6.22, which included working versions of everything they ummm... borrowed from DR-DOS and XP, which finally works reasonably well after enough patches and service packs.

From what I've read, Win 7 is supposed to be everything that Vista was SUPPOSED to be, faster, more stable and less of a resource hog. That said, my basic operating premise is not to adopt any new M$ OS until it's been out for at least a year, preferably two.

FWIW, my Compaq V6719NR lappy came with Vista Home Premium, but it runs much faster and smoother with XP Pro. :cool:

I posted this because it's a hot deal for those considering buying any new system that would qualify for the free upgrade. If Win 7 is good, it's good info, even if you want to wait for any necessary patches and service packs. If it's a turkey, at least you didn't pay more than it's worth. :p
 
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Windows 7 beta has been relatively non-troublesome for me so far, on both my sig rig and laptop (C2D + Quadro FX3700M). I was able to get working drivers for all of my components, either using the Vista drivers (vast majority of cases) or W7 specific drivers (video card and X-Fi). The taskbar improvements are pretty significant. Raid drivers were already included, so no need to slipstream the drivers in like with even the latest version of XP.

I've had some occasional minor crashes with the profiling software for a couple of my peripherals (n52 and TrackIR), but nothing serious so far like BSODs. I haven't felt any need to downgrade back to Vista, but I'll still keep XP dualboot around for backwards compatibility with older apps.
 
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How about free upgrades for all of us that bought windows 98 with its memory leaks and windows vista that never really worked right, I dont understand how every patch for windows we have to buy the whole thing again, I personally have a couple box's running sweet on linux now, I wish game companies would support linux native and I would never have to buy windows again and again and again...
 
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Originally posted by: Macgyversite
GREAT. Microsoft hasn't gotten Vista even close to being a good stable operating system and now we get the Seventh Microsoft POS.

The microsoft tootsie pop.

How many service packs does it take.........

I'll stick with XP for a while.
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You're a retard.
 
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California Roll

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I am one of the people who didn't upgrade to XP until SP1. I did the same for Vista. I never got to play with any betas or RCs like Win7 tho. Since using Win7 as my primary OS since day one of RC, I'm very pleased with it. I would have no hesitation using it on day one of release.
 
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