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Here is some info for you guys that might look at doing upgrades rather than a clean install.

When Will Windows 7 RTM Be Available?
According to this Windows Team Blog posting, Volume License (VL) customers with an existing Software Assurance (SA) license will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting August 7, 2009 via the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). The rest of the languages for Windows 7 RTM should be available within a couple of weeks following the English release. For IT professionals who are not part of the VL program, if you have a TechNet subscription, you will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6, 2009, and the remaining languages by October 1, 2009. Evaluation versions of Windows 7 Professional for IT professionals will be made available via the Springboard Series shortly after RTM.


Unsupported Upgrade Scenarios

• Upgrades to Windows 7 from the following operating systems are not supported:
• Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows XP, Windows Vista® RTM, Windows Vista Starter, Windows 7 M3, Windows 7 Beta, Windows 7 RC, or Windows 7 IDS
• Windows NT® Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2
• Cross-architecture in-place upgrades (for example, x86 to x64) are not supported.
• Cross-language in-place upgrades (for example, en-us to de-de) are not supported.
• Cross-SKU upgrades (for example, Windows 7 N to Windows 7 K) are not supported.
• Upgrades from Windows Vista to Windows N, Windows K, Windows KN, or Windows E are not supported.
• Cross-build type in-place upgrades (for example, fre to chk) are not supported.
• Pre-release in-place upgrades across milestones (for example, Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM) are not supported.

Really don't feel like doinga clean install of W7 Sad this RC is working fine.

Music
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When do the warnings and shutdowns etc start on the RC?
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From memory its in March next year and it will expire in June next year.

Music
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Said this to africa in IRC, but not being able to upgrade from Beta/RC to RTM is standard practice for Windows OS.
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As is the rest of the bullet points most of which are inapplicable to most users anyway. No Vista RTM is an odd one though.
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Any idea of costs yet?

I want to get of XP on my netbook
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http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws0908.htm

the second part of an article on Win7 this time focusing on the positives and , for jeffthechef , some reference to pricing
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The one time im glad/had use for software assurance.

You can buy licences for it already.
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From that article
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Ask a Microsoft person to name the top six new things in Windows 7, and you're likely to get a list like this:

* DirectAccess, the new VPN alternative;
* BranchCache, a bandwidth-saving modification of how Windows client systems in a branch office cache information received from file shares and Web servers in a central office;
* BitLocker To Go, an extension of BitLocker technology for encrypting data not only on hard drives but on USB sticks as well, trying to solve the "how do I keep my people from misplacing USB sticks with company data on them" problem;
* AppLocker, something that lets you control which applications any given user can or can't run;
* Boot from VHD, a new way to package operating systems;
* XP Mode (XPM), which, as I explained in the previous newsletter, is a virtualized copy of XP SP3 pre-packaged into Windows 7 to fix otherwise-insoluble software compatibility issues.

Please understand, I'm not saying that I consider those to be the top six -- there are lots of other neat ones not mentioned -- but it seems that most Microsoft marketing literature focuses on that list, roughly. Now let's ask, which of those six features are available in Windows 7 Professional. Ready? Here they are:

* XP Mode (XPM)

Yup, that's it ... only XP Mode. So, of the marquee features that we'll see being hawked prominently by Microsoft ads, presentations, and the like, Professional users get just one -- XPM. So, in other words, it seems that in some ways, Professional is basically Vista SP3, and Ultimate/Enterprise are the real Windows 7, right? Eek. And I suppose that means that the list price of Ultimate will be $100 more than Pro?

Well, now, that's where the good news comes in. From what I can see, Windows 7 Pro will run you about $300 list, and Ultimate? Just $20 more. Now, that might work, if we ignore that minor economic downturn we keep hearing about.
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Being that the 5 of those 6 features not included in Pro are explicitly targeted at Enterprise use, it's hardly surprising.

BitLocker to go would be nice though I admit, it works really well, and even works with XP machines.
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God I hope that "top six new things" is only for enterprise geekery. Cause otherwise MS still has a looooooot to learn about OS marketing Laughing
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You are joking right?

Geeks is the people they need to sell their product to. Jo NoOne doesn't give a fuck and will buy whatever a geek tells him to.

Music
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If they're giving up on marketing to the consumer market and feel all revenue will come through Enterprise IT purchases then fair enough.
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Jo Blow consumer buys whatever Dell sells them.

Regardless, that stuff certainly isn't remotely related to what any home consumer targeted marketing will be focusing on.
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this indicates 7 is faster than XP and also that 7 is suitable for all but the lowest specc'd Atoms

http://windows7center.com/news/windows-7-benchmarks-vs-vista-and-xp/