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MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users
crazyeyes writes "With Windows 7 set for release in Dec. 09, Microsoft is getting ready with their free upgrade program, which allows Vista users to switch to Windows 7 when it arrives. The folks at TechARP have consistently scored accurate scoops on Microsoft software releases. They have now revealed Microsoft's upgrade plans, schedules and even screenshots of the upgrade process."
When I first read this and the comments made about it I was thinking this was MS trying to make an apology for Vista. It looks instead like they are trying to provide assistance to the OEMs that are having an impossible time selling machines curs... er... PREINSTALLED with Vista because users want to wait for Windows 7 to get a new machine. (I don't blame them...)
So once again MS isn't looking out for the good of their customers, for the public, but for their business partners. *sigh* Just once you'd think they would try something that shown them in a positive light to their users?
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
I was promised a free Vista upgrade when I bought my Windows XP laptop. But I think it was Compaq who promised the Vista upgrade. When I got Vista Home Premium I didn't have drivers for my system and with only 512M of RAM it ran slow, and the graphics card didn't support AERO.
I recall Microsoft was sued over the "Vista Ready" computers that couldn't run Vista. I'll bet the Windows 7.0 ready computers that come with Vista will have the same problems.
Oh ho ho, I always try to stay one Windows version behind now so I don't get burned again. Retrocomputing is great that way! :)
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What the hell is wrong with people? Why is there so much hype about Vista+1?
Seems like slashdot can't do a day without at least a half-dozen articles mentioning Windows "7".
Well here in the real world I've been working with Win7. I don't see why everyone is so excited.
Win7 fixes none of the driver "problems" (design flaws) that Vista had. Win7 does nothing to fix the compatibility with XP issues Vista had. Win7 doesn't reduce the piggish requirements Vista had. UAC is still garbage, sliding scale or not. Win7 still has a deliberately broken IPSEC NAT-T implimentation, just like Vista.
In fact, in my testing at work, stuff that worked on Vista (that we had to work hard to MAKE work) has stopped working on Win7. Bra-VO Microsoft. One of our IT guys put McAfee (which works on Vista) on Win7 and caused the first ever Win7 bluescreen of shit.
So riding the wave of undeserved hype, Microsoft is offering a non-upgrade (if you're eligable, and most of us are NOT) to their Vista Service pack (now with ugly panel!) that will fix exactly nothing that was wrong with Vista. Bravo! Good job Slashdot, keep promoting this lemon! Makes my job all the worse...two incompatible Microsoft abortions to support all at the same time. Thank god it's "Genuine Microsoft." Wouldn't want any of that Porkysoft (TM) Windows knock-offs on my machine.
I used Bob and liked it.
Have you driven a fnord... lately?
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