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Windows 7 Upgrade Chart
- marcusestes 17y agoThat's a whole lotta blue.
- Oompa 17y agoWhy is it this way? Is Microsoft just lazy, doing this for marketing reasons, or is there a legitimate reason for this? People might be annoyed by Apple for the App Store control, but you must admit, at least they have their OS upgrading makes sense.
- wmf 17y agoIf this came from anyone but MS, I would say it's a good example of how to lie with charts. The upgrade rules are pretty simple, but drawing it as a chart makes it look complex. You can't upgrade to a different bitness, because that might break apps or drivers that depend on the old bitness. You can't "upgrade" to an OS with fewer features (e.g. Ultimate to Home). I don't know why they don't allow upgrades from XP or Vista Starter; that sounds like plain laziness given that IIRC it is possible to upgrade XP -> Vista -> 7. In general Apple tries to configure things at runtime, while Windows does more install-time configuration which inevitably breaks when things change.
- Oompa 17y agoThe bit change makes sense, but why not upgrade to an OS with fewer features? Maybe I bought Vista Ultimate, and it wasn't worth it, so I want to just stick with the normal home version this time around. I have to do a full clean install for that? I think MS could easily add support to upgrade to a "lower" version of the OS if you bought the premium last time.
- ajg1977 17y agoTwo reasons; 1) You begin to get a combination explosion of all the scenarios Microsoft would have to test "upgrades" with. 2) Some people may appreciate this, but others would complain about program or feature X/Y/Z suddenly going missing from their machine after an "upgrade".
- Oompa 17y agoI guess it simplifies down to Microsoft has too many versions of Windows, but I guess it allows them to pull more money out of the market.