Express Upgrade to Windows Vista

Nate J · Tue 02 Jan, 2007 13.14

I'm capable to get it as well but no mention how to do it.

I really don't like HP, if I can ask Reeves, what HP model have you got?

I have something like Pavillion m7457.uk Media Centre bla bla

Reeves · Tue 02 Jan, 2007 17.21

Nate J wrote:I'm capable to get it as well but no mention how to do it.

I really don't like HP, if I can ask Reeves, what HP model have you got?

I have something like Pavillion m7457.uk Media Centre bla bla

Its the m7281.uk. Got it from QVC even though the model has been discontinued. If, by any chance, you are actually capable...

http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cach ... 4-121.html

Chris · Tue 02 Jan, 2007 17.43

Reeves wrote:
Nate J wrote:I'm capable to get it as well but no mention how to do it.

I really don't like HP, if I can ask Reeves, what HP model have you got?

I have something like Pavillion m7457.uk Media Centre bla bla
Its the m7281.uk. Got it from QVC even though the model has been discontinued. If, by any chance, you are actually capable...

http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cach ... 4-121.html

QVC is hardly the place to go for cutting edge technology.

Reeves · Tue 02 Jan, 2007 17.45

Touché. Come to think of it, does the PC model really matter as long as you know it's Vista compatible?

cwathen · Tue 02 Jan, 2007 20.04

I just don't understand why Windows Vista has such outrageous memory requirements. 90% of people won't be able to upgrade and get a good experience. I mean, what does it do, that Windows XP doesn't, that requires so much extra memory that only TODAY'S top of the line computers can handle it? isn't that mad for an OS, which is supposed to be a platform for programs rather than a resource-intensive program of its own?

We've been here before - when Windows 95 was released an awful lot of actively used PCs didn't even meet it's minimum supported specification, an awful lot more only barely ran it, and countless 286-class machines (still popular for non-multimedia budget machines right up to 1992/3 as Windows 3.1 ran fine on them) suddenly found themselves completely obsoleted and beyond upgrading even though the computer may only have been 2 years old.

Windows XP has now been the current version of Windows for over 5 years and yet Vista continues to slip back and still has no firm release date - if it gets delayed much past easter they may well end up going for an August launch - by which time XP will only be 2 months short of completing it's 6th year of being current. Hanging around for all this time means that people no longer feel as pressured to upgrade their computers as regularly as they were in the second half of the 90's and it is entirely possible that, just as in 1995, Microsoft could be about to release an operating system which a huge proportion of the installed user base can't run.

11 years ago they managed to pull it off and people upgraded but it remains to be see whether or not they can do it again.

Nate J · Sun 07 Jan, 2007 00.09

Ok, I got on this 'moduslink' website where you're supposed to download it, but I'm slightly buggered

o Please have your date of purchase available. Systems must be purchased between October 26, 2006 and March 15, 2007.
o Please have your Certificate of Authenticity (COA) number (14 digits) readily available.
o Please have your HP or Compaq PC Model Number available.
o Please have your PC serial number readily available
o Please verify that your system is Windows Vista Capable. Your system will either have a logo on it or this will be stated on the packing slip that came with your PC.

I had to bloody buy mine before October didn't I!

At least there's still time to use my time machine and go to March and get it.

marksi · Tue 30 Jan, 2007 17.42

Windows Vista has launched.

The same upgrade which will set you back £99 in the UK is $99 (£50.44) in the United States.

Nate J · Tue 30 Jan, 2007 17.52

marksi wrote:Windows Vista has launched.

The same upgrade which will set you back £99 in the UK is $99 (£50.44) in the United States.

*Shakes fist*
Damn you US.

cdd · Tue 30 Jan, 2007 18.14

I'm able to get as many copies of the Business version of Vista as I want for free and legally

Gavin Scott · Wed 31 Jan, 2007 15.48

nodnirG kraM wrote:The bloke from DHL just plonked this on my desk.

Woo. And indeed Hoo.

OEM though so I don't get a funky Vista DVD case.

Damn. I wish you could sell, lend or transfer the contents of that disc to me, but I suppose you'd better not as it says not to on it.

Lorns · Wed 31 Jan, 2007 17.05

cdd wrote:I'm able to get as many copies of the Business version of Vista as I want for free and legally

Really?

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