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Not really sure how you could Backload any older versions of Windows anyway
This Update/Upgrade relies on downloading and installing like the Beta of 8 does a 5 Meg Download and run it on your existing OS and it downloads then installs 8.
You get to print off a Product Key which many will forget about and just read it off the screen when requested and then loose it.
Then depending on which version of 8 you end up with it may not be one of the Higher Versions which has the Backward License, remember Vista Home doesn't qualify for the Backward License Agreement it has to the the Professional or higher versions just like 7.
Also as we have yet to see the Licensing Agreement for 8 yet it's hard to say one way or the other what Microsoft will actually do in regards Licensing 8 let alone what the License Conditions of the $40.00 8 Upgrade is. I haven't used any Microsoft Upgrade Product ever and I seem to remember that a long time ago when I made the decision to avoid them it was because they had a different License Agreement.
Anyway without a COA or actual Install Disc just a Repair Disc for use after the product has been installed & Activated I personally can not see too many stripping it out and loading anything.
I Dual Boot this system with XP Pro as the Base Install and 7 Pro 64 Bit the Second OS in use and to be perfectly honest I'm mostly using XP for daily use with only the occasional drop into 7 for anything but supporting 2 small clients that has 7 on their system.
With the loss of a perfectly good scanner and several printers not to mention a Web Cam I currently don't see much of a need for anything but XP and to be perfectly honest I can not see myself replacing several thousand $ worth of Printers and a couple of Hundred $ for a 7 Compatible Scanner as being a worthwhile use of my money at the moment.
Maybe when I replace 2 Color Lasers and the B&W Laser I could comfortably shell out a couple of Hundred for another Scanner and another 7 compatible Negative Scanner which I use a lot and it would be nice to be using all 16 GIG of RAM in this unit and maybe I could even justify upgrading to 24 GIG if I was using a 64 Bit OS all of the time.
Though I honestly think that maybe loading some form of Unix/Linux as a 64 Bit OS and continuing to use the existing hardware with maybe a CPU change to an i7 from the i5 would be far more likely for me to do.
Col
You get to print off a Product Key which many will forget about and just read it off the screen when requested and then loose it.
Then depending on which version of 8 you end up with it may not be one of the Higher Versions which has the Backward License, remember Vista Home doesn't qualify for the Backward License Agreement it has to the the Professional or higher versions just like 7.
Also as we have yet to see the Licensing Agreement for 8 yet it's hard to say one way or the other what Microsoft will actually do in regards Licensing 8 let alone what the License Conditions of the $40.00 8 Upgrade is. I haven't used any Microsoft Upgrade Product ever and I seem to remember that a long time ago when I made the decision to avoid them it was because they had a different License Agreement.
Anyway without a COA or actual Install Disc just a Repair Disc for use after the product has been installed & Activated I personally can not see too many stripping it out and loading anything.
I Dual Boot this system with XP Pro as the Base Install and 7 Pro 64 Bit the Second OS in use and to be perfectly honest I'm mostly using XP for daily use with only the occasional drop into 7 for anything but supporting 2 small clients that has 7 on their system.
With the loss of a perfectly good scanner and several printers not to mention a Web Cam I currently don't see much of a need for anything but XP and to be perfectly honest I can not see myself replacing several thousand $ worth of Printers and a couple of Hundred $ for a 7 Compatible Scanner as being a worthwhile use of my money at the moment.
Maybe when I replace 2 Color Lasers and the B&W Laser I could comfortably shell out a couple of Hundred for another Scanner and another 7 compatible Negative Scanner which I use a lot and it would be nice to be using all 16 GIG of RAM in this unit and maybe I could even justify upgrading to 24 GIG if I was using a 64 Bit OS all of the time.
Though I honestly think that maybe loading some form of Unix/Linux as a 64 Bit OS and continuing to use the existing hardware with maybe a CPU change to an i7 from the i5 would be far more likely for me to do.
Col
Moderator Posted by HAL 9000
Updated - 3rd Jul
