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February 19, 2009

Q. Can I upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7?

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A. The current plan is that there will not be a direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7. However, there will be a migration tools that will let you move user profile and data from a Windows XP to Windows 7 installation. These tools include the User State Migration Toolkit for corporate domain environments, which will be coupled with a deployment technology to push the Windows 7 OS and required applications.

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Reader Comments
What a cruel scenario. Windows users must manually upgrade from a previous OS other than Vista!
And we all are running Vista by now, right?

dcortex February 19, 2009 (Article Rating: )


Microsoft's last products all have upgrade-deficiencies:
1) You cannot upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
2) You cannot upgrade 32-bit XP to 64-bit XP
3) You cannot upgrade 32-bit XP to 64-bit Vista
4) You cannot upgrade 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Vista
5) You cannot upgrade 32-bit 2003 to 64-bit 2003
6) You cannot upgrade 32-bit 2003 to 64-bit 2008

All the ads from Microsoft and Apple and like say that "you can do this thing, that thing etc. which you couldn't do in the earlier products". But at the end Microsoft's sayings are in fact like "you cannot do this thing, you cannot do that thing".

Murat Yildirimoglu

muraty February 19, 2009 (Article Rating: )


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