There's a preorder for Window 7 going on right now. $50 for Home Premium and it sounds like you can do a clean install to upgrade straight from XP to 7. I've been really impressed with it so far and I'm ready to upgrade all of my machines. The regular upgrade price is suppose to be around $120. I put my copies on order at Amazon.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
Still deciding if I should get this. Does the upgrade check to make sure you’re using a legit version of windows first?
From what I’ve read, you can’t upgrade a bootleg version of XP. Or at least I keep reading that XP has to pass the WGA check first. Hmm.
I’m tempted by this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116677&Tpk=32-116-677
$109 for Vista Home Premium OEM, and a free upgrade to Win 7. Only thing I would like better is an OEM version of Win 7…but there’s always the chance it will cost more.
I just read that the OEM versions are tied to whatever motherboard you install it on. LAME. So if my motherboard dies…so does my version of windows.
Microsofts site is showing the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium for $199. Could be a chance that will drop closer to $150-175 on sale somewhere.
Gonna pick up some cheap OEM licenses of XP or 2000 of eBay and upgrade using those. Going to upgrade my main machine before moving to Windows 7 to avoid any OEM hassles. Quad core with 4-8gb of ram should be good enough for a while.
These two posts by Paul Thurrott help show there’s still questions Microsoft needs to answer about upgrades:
http://windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=102377&feed=rss&subj=0
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/faq.asp
Now there are rumors of a 3 license family pack:
http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/07/02/possible-evidence-of-3-pc-windows-7-home-premium-family-pack-licensing.aspx
I’m currently in the process of upgrading my home PC to Windows Seven. Thanks for your post! BTW, can you please send me an email address that I can use to contact you? Thanks.
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