Windows 7 upgrade for £19.95

garyjohn80

All windows upgrade disc are the full version. they just have a restriction on the install software so that it must detect another version. and the need for windows ulitmate for most personal users is minimaland the aditional feature are unessasary and will be unused to there potential. home premium is a perfectly good OS for most people. so no need for £200 upgrade. The upgrade offer comes from Microsoft not your PC manufacturer. But they do operate this offer through manufacturers and not directly from there selfs. So yes just to ship you a disc is a rip off if HP are charging you this.

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MiserlyMartin wrote: »

No I was forced to because the PC did not run properly on Vista. Windows 7 is based a lot around pc's with touchscreens, my pc is a touchscreen pc which came with the top version of vista, which 7 ultimate replaces. HP support said that any issues with the laptop would be fixed with the 7 upgrade, which was sold as a free upgrade with the pc.

The Windows 7 upgrade is only the home version. Home is a cut down copy of 7 ultimate and an upgrade disk is not even a proper piece of software. £200 to buy the upgrade so thats out, £20 for a useless disk which should have been free or nothing for the good copy software from a mate. What would you do - I had no option!

HP offer other versions of Windows 7 other than just Home Premium otherwise anyone who had a machine with Vista Business or Ultimate wouldn't be able to upgrade to Windows 7 at all.

The upgrade paths are:

Vista Home Premium > Windows 7 Home Premium
Vista Business > Windows 7 Professional
Vista Ultimate > Windows 7 Ultimate

Why would you be given a full version of Windows just to upgrade? It doesn't make any sense.