Comments on: Are The Upgrade Rules To Windows 7 Confusing? I Believe They Are http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/29/are-the-upgrade-rules-to-windows-7-confusing-i-believe-they-are/ Technology News, Reviews & How-To Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/29/are-the-upgrade-rules-to-windows-7-confusing-i-believe-they-are/#comment-60995 Ron Schenone Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:48:58 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9801#comment-60995 Hi Marc, Unbelievable! Thanks for the link. Check your email. I sent you a message. Hi Marc,
Unbelievable! Thanks for the link.
Check your email. I sent you a message.

]]> By: the oracle http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/29/are-the-upgrade-rules-to-windows-7-confusing-i-believe-they-are/#comment-60994 the oracle Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:08:19 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9801#comment-60994 Just when you think that MS has gotten it right, they appear to pull defeat from the jaws of victory. I know a great many students are upset over the fact that 32bit Vista can't be upgraded to 64bit Windows 7. Then there are those like me, having attended a Launch and Developer Event, and coming home with a copy of Ultimate, then finding that, unlike the retail versions, the package only contains the 32bit version, not 64bit, and with no way to download or order alternate media. As a student, I am also getting a $30 version of Windows 7 Pro, but that is all screwed up because Digital River screwed the pooch. Then, when they post links to actual ISO files, the 64bit Pro link yields a broken download, time after time. This is not the way you start off, because no matter how few it actually affects, it gets magnified by the media and word of mouth. BTW, there is a way to (ostensibly) change the version of the ISO you have through a utility spoken of in several places. It might work for those who have a serial number, but can't get the proper ISO, yet have access to another. It's called Windows 7 ISO Switcher - http://code.kliu.org/misc/win7utils/ I have not tried it yet, but it's worth a try if you are having problems and can't get hold of MS - I waited online for over 55 minutes today, trying to get a 64 bit Ultimate disk - I hung up because I had other things to do. Just when you think that MS has gotten it right, they appear to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.

I know a great many students are upset over the fact that 32bit Vista can’t be upgraded to 64bit Windows 7.

Then there are those like me, having attended a Launch and Developer Event, and coming home with a copy of Ultimate, then finding that, unlike the retail versions, the package only contains the 32bit version, not 64bit, and with no way to download or order alternate media.

As a student, I am also getting a $30 version of Windows 7 Pro, but that is all screwed up because Digital River screwed the pooch. Then, when they post links to actual ISO files, the 64bit Pro link yields a broken download, time after time.

This is not the way you start off, because no matter how few it actually affects, it gets magnified by the media and word of mouth.

BTW, there is a way to (ostensibly) change the version of the ISO you have through a utility spoken of in several places. It might work for those who have a serial number, but can’t get the proper ISO, yet have access to another.

It’s called Windows 7 ISO Switcher –
http://code.kliu.org/misc/win7utils/

I have not tried it yet, but it’s worth a try if you are having problems and can’t get hold of MS – I waited online for over 55 minutes today, trying to get a 64 bit Ultimate disk – I hung up because I had other things to do.

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