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Microsoft will not be offering an upgrade version of Windows 7 in Europe.

In the past Microsoft has given people already using Windows a chance to upgrade to a new version when it becomes available.

While that option will be offered in the US, Microsoft said its efforts to comply with competition regulations meant it could not do so in Europe.

European regulators dismissed the claim, saying the move limited choices rather than opening them up.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 02:08:56 PM EST
"Vista SP2 Windows 7: Only $200."

Helen, still waiting for your Windows rule to pop up.  Every review from the geekosphere I read says it's more stable but just as slow and basically as shitty.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 02:17:20 PM EST
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Well speed results should be a bit dubious, in theory there should be an extra pile of debugging code installed that will be removed to speed everything up before the final version is released. it all depends how much debugging is needed, and how much of the new version is just window dressing on Vista.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:00:11 PM EST
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But that would assume that Microsoft has bothered with debugging code, wouldn't it?
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:12:38 PM EST
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Well they did do with the beta version of Vista, and it had a noticeable performance effect when they took it out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:23:57 PM EST
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All I can say is that I never want to hear Microsofties bitching about OS X releases being "service packs that cost money" with this $200 piece of shit coming out.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 05:34:46 PM EST
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Well I still think the rule will probably hold.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 06:49:31 PM EST
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Everything I hear about 7 suggests my rule holds : vista was a pile of crap, so seVen will be okay.

It's a vista lookalike, but so far as I can tell from what people tell me, a lot of the stuff underneath that annoyed people has been removed.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 05:01:00 PM EST
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Not seeing it.  And I'm putting all of my money in chair-assembly stocks.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 05:35:11 PM EST
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