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Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe
jbeale53 writes "It seems that to install Windows 7 in Europe, you'll have to wipe the system and start over. There will be no ability to upgrade. From the article, 'The unfortunate side effect has been caused by Microsoft's decision to avoid any further EU censure on Windows 7 by removing Internet Explorer 8 from the OS. Because Internet Explorer is so deeply integrated within Vista, it's not currently possible to perform an upgrade that removes IE.' Why would Microsoft cripple it this way? Just to try and point fingers at the European Union? Because the EU didn't tell them to remove IE, they only told them to offer other browsers to be installed during setup."
How many upgrades does it take to get from Windows 3.11 to 7?
(shows BSOD during the upgrade from 95 to 98)
... The world may never know.
Knowledge Brings Fear
well if you really like shit it's no wonder you prefer windows :D
Good lord you Windows people love abuse. You reinstall every single year, and you find that acceptable? That's got to chew through at least a day or three every single time, especially since package managers don't exist on Windows.
In comparison, all of my Linux installs are the original ones, and they run like new (better actually, as they have much newer software now) after 3-5 years of 24/7 operation. In fact, it's not uncommon for them to run without a reboot for more than a year at a time.
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
the more I see MS giving the EU a big F U. Not only have they had to put up with them telling them to open their system up for competition, but they get fined for when they try to do anything otherwise.
"Blasphemy!" they say. "We will only lose more market share!"
And its true. My god, imagine Normal-Joe-User having the choice between several brands of web browsers and media players to choose from. Internet Explorer sounds old and so 80s, where as Firefox has the words "fire" and "fox" so its gotta be both exciting and cuddly right?
So instead of giving them the choice, they opt to not give them any at all, foregoing the need to even have to bother with the EU ever again. I can see Balmer and his cronies sitting in a meeting and they all unanimously say "fuck it," raising a middle finger across the Atlantic as hard as they possibly could.
I install every time I need to use Windows, so twice a year or so. The balance of the time I have just one drive in my tower, and that's a 30GB SSD with 20+ free GB on it. No room for Windows there, and my office is plenty warm and noisy enough without it.
My spinning hard drives live in the file server or on the shelf in the basement. I suppose some of those might contain a Windows install, but why take a risk? There's probably some boxes down there with old underwear too. Although it's probably laundered, I ain't throwin' it on without at least a short cycle in the wash, thanks.
I am literally 3000 tokens away from the chaotic crossbow --Stephen
I read "D:" and my brain parsed it as an emoticon.
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All the Macintosh users are gloating, since upgrades, and migrating to new machines seems to be always flawless and painless.
I read "D:" and my brain parsed it as an emoticon.
...which shows exactly what you'll look like if you wipe the wrong partition
An upside-down frown?
Never reinstall an OS upside down.. the blood rushing to your head is rumored to do strange things to your reasoning.
Your friends have failed. Witness the selling power of this fully armed and operational release of Windows 7.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Hell, it takes me about 3 months to get all my apps reinstalled after I do a new OS install...
good thing I don't have a C: drive
This is not the funny you're looking for.
WIN+r, type: cmd.exe
In the console type: telnet mozilla.isc.org 80
In the telnet console type ont the following two lines:
GET /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/win32/en/Firefox%20Setup%203.5.exe HTTP/1.1
Host: mozilla.isc.org
Now click enter again and the download should begin. Then comes the hard part to copy paste all that binary stuff into an exe file ;)
You don't know what you don't know.
Good question. I tried calling them at (800)FIREFOX to order a floppy, but they tried to sell me area rugs. I'm very confused :^S