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Apathy is the biggest competitor to any upgrade - you simply have to give enough reasons to upgrade. The price probably outweighs these benefits, but if price
by nopassrecover 17y ago
Apathy is the biggest competitor to any upgrade - you simply have to give enough reasons to upgrade. The price probably outweighs these benefits, but if price isn't an issue I'd recommend the upgrade.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoFrom my POV, the biggest cost of an upgrade to W7 isn't the dollars, but the need to completely rebuild my environment. That's many hours of work, probably burning an entire weekend plus several evenings. I can't fathom why MS didn't work their tails off to make the upgrade path from XP to W7 as easy as possible. It's like they're being spiteful, just saying "we told you that you should upgrade to Vista". But since XP is really their competition, and they need to minimize the costs -- not just monetary -- to the upgrade, why do they make it so hard?
- jsz0 17y agoThat's a great point. Windows 7 is one of the first Microsoft operating systems in a while that is suitable to upgrade older hardware with. Do they have any option to at least transfer the home directory and installed apps to the fresh install?
- nopassrecover 17y agoCan you elaborate? I didn't encounter this at all.