You can upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Home Premium... right?

[Jax Omen]

When they say "comparable version", do they mean you can only upgrade like versions (ultimate->ultimate), or that you can't use the upgrade to go up versions (like home premium->ultimate)?

I have a Vista ultimate lying around and would like to get in on this Windows 7 upgrade preorder business going on, but I want to make sure it will work first.

I don't care if I'd have to do a fresh install, I just want to make sure my copy of Vista is eligible.

 

[TheKub]

Same - > same.

Now there is nothing stopping you from doing home premium -> home premium then doing the anytime upgrade to ultimate.

 

[Jax Omen]

Sure there is: I don't have Home Premium.

What terrible news.

 

[Golgatha]

You can do it, but you'll have to do the upgrade option with a clean install. You can't do an in-place upgrade. I'd like to do an in-place upgrade to Win7 Pro from Vista Ultimate, but I'm expecting to do a clean install.

I wish that the Win7 Ultimate Upgrade was included in this 2 week long, 50% off promotion for sure.

 

[Jax Omen]

I don't mind doing a clean install. You're sure I can upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Home Premium with a fresh install of the upgrade edition of Windows 7 Home Premium?

 

[RebateMonger]

Anybody find it weird that THE most obvious question: "Can I buy a reduced-price "Upgrade" for my Windows 7 Ultimate RC installation?", isn't addressed by any current Microsoft FAQ?

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Anybody find it weird that THE most obvious question: "Can I buy a reduced-price "Upgrade" for my Windows 7 Ultimate RC installation?", isn't addressed by any current Microsoft FAQ?

True. Either way I'm fine (not that this helps the OP). I have a WinXP Pro install under VMware I can use for the change over to Windows 7 if need be. I figure the WinXP mode in Windows 7 should solve the odd app I need to run under WinXP in VMWare.

Something else that's not really mentioned is if the Home Premium version of Win7 "only" supports 16GB of RAM. With Vista HP it is 16GB and Vista Business (Pro for Win7) is 128GB. I won't need more than my current 12GB for awhile hopefully (especially since Win7's memory footprint is less). For this reason, I got Win7 Pro as an upgrade for my HTPC, which is currently running Vista HP 64bit. I figured having memory support, WinXP mode, remote access, built-in backup software, and the simplicity of having one version of Windows on all three of my machines would be worth it (bought a copy of Win7 Pro for my aging laptop too, since WinXP Pro is a little irritable about wanting to properly share folders/printers with my Vista machines).

 

[Athena]

You should be able to do a "downgrade" from Ultimate to Home Premium. The Windows 7 strategy is really to get all consumers on Home Premium and leave Ultimate to "Enterprises".