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Originally Posted By: sprintman
No legal upgrade from Vista Home Basic so bought W7 Home Premium OEM and Office Pro 2007 Academic Edition. Just about ready to go.

This is not true. You can legally upgrade any Vista to any Windows 7.

From Microsoft:

Should I buy an Upgrade or Full license of Windows 7?

*All editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista qualify you to upgrade. So, if you're running either on your PC today, buy a package labeled "Upgrade".
 
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I wonder if they (MS) told us that so that we purchase the corporate license version. That version is cheaper than Win7 Home Premium for most people, but guarantees that everything works on a MS Domain...
 
Originally Posted By: sprintman
From Microsoft contact, and email from the lic'ing team at Ingram Micro (see email in my post above). That's Vista Home Basic OEM Edition of course.

Microsoft certainly has me confused, when they state on their Microsoft Store website: "If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions." and don't list any restrictions, the average person is going to assume there are NO restrictions. Thanks for the clarification.
So how did the upgrade, clean install go? What do you think of Windows 7?
 
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn

However, there's a rub to all this...OEM "full" version of Win 7 Home Premium is at the same price point as Win 7 Home Premium upgrade.

I don't know about Australia, but in the US if you qualify for an Academic Office license you probably qualify for an Academic Windows 7 Upgrade which seem to sell from $30 to $100, depending on the version and the buyers' academic status.
 
Originally Posted By: Gradient
Originally Posted By: sprintman
From Microsoft contact, and email from the lic'ing team at Ingram Micro (see email in my post above). That's Vista Home Basic OEM Edition of course.

Microsoft certainly has me confused, when they state on their Microsoft Store website: "If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions." and don't list any restrictions, the average person is going to assume there are NO restrictions. Thanks for the clarification.
So how did the upgrade, clean install go? What do you think of Windows 7?

Did you read my post above? This is directly from the Microsoft website. I know it works and is legal. I have done it.
 
Got a Linux based Eee PC laptop for Christmas. Think my next step is to dump the OEM OS and go with ubuntu. I imagine most of the unwary that bought one would have returned it. In trying to install all the updates it downloaded, it crashed so severely 3 times I have to do a system restore on it and start again. The open software community has shot itself in the foot again. Whoever selected the OS must have been a Microsoft mole.
 
Originally Posted By: tmorris1

Did you read my post above? This is directly from the Microsoft website. I know it works and is legal. I have done it.

No need to, I posted the same quote 4 days ago.
The confusion is a result of Microsoft's Representatives giving licensing advice that conflicts with Microsoft's Website.
 
Picked up WIndows 7 Ultimate activation code for $15 on Ebay. You need the physical disk for installation. It worked authentic MS activation code.
 
Originally Posted By: labman
Got a Linux based Eee PC laptop for Christmas. Think my next step is to dump the OEM OS and go with ubuntu. I imagine most of the unwary that bought one would have returned it. In trying to install all the updates it downloaded, it crashed so severely 3 times I have to do a system restore on it and start again. The open software community has shot itself in the foot again. Whoever selected the OS must have been a Microsoft mole.


That's a known issue, let me guess, 4 GB drive?

Ubuntu works sweet on my dell mini.
 
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
For a Netbook, I would consider Linux Mint 8 over Ubuntu. The guys behind Mint are doing a lot of right things.


Amazingly, I am pretty sure that the majority of (the excellent) work on Mint is being done by only one fella, by the name of Clemente Lefebvre (Don't quote me on the spelling!) It may not be a arduous a task as it might appear, as Mint is almost all Ubuntu with a few utilities, tweaks and a few proprietary non-free codecs installed. (In the same way that Ubuntu is almost all Debian, with a few tweaks, additions and customizations here and there.)

I am sure there are developers all over that help out, but like Patrick Volkerding and Slackware, I am pretty sure that Mint is a one-man band.
 
Originally Posted By: sprintman
No legal upgrade from Vista Home Basic so bought W7 Home Premium OEM and Office Pro 2007 Academic Edition. Just about ready to go.

on.
From MS W-7 Installation. Vista Home Basic is a 32bit, W-7 Premium is 64bit:

You can use the Upgrade option during Windows 7 installation, which preserves your files, settings, and programs, only if you're currently running a 32-bit version of Windows Vista and you want to upgrade to the 32-bit version of Windows 7. Similarly, if you are running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, you can only perform an upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows 7.
 
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