It can be upgraded from vista for free right? I bought my laptop from Dell last year, can I get it for free?

You can upgrade to linux for free.

#1 your avatar gets unlimited free copies

Nope.. sorry

How does this upgrade work? You have to have your vista installed in order to upgrade to windows 7? So when I want to reinstall Windows 7 later, I'd have to install vista again and Windows 7?

Sounds like the Dell sales people worked over #1 pretty good.

#5 should take a few minutes with Google to read up on Windows 7. There's lots of good information out there, like this: http://bensbargains.netn.com/nh5cev

@ this guy "How does this upgrade work? You have to have your vista installed in order to upgrade to windows 7? So when I want to reinstall Windows 7 later, I'd have to install vista again and Windows 7? "

Most of the time the upgrade disks will ask you to simply pop in the disk for your previous version of windows. At least that's how the XP upgrade was. You'll still have the option of doing a clean install, as that's the ebst way to ensure you'll get the best use out of the new OS.

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Ah bacon, such a wealth of knowledge. His answer is incomplete, but hey, at least he's trying to appear like a legitimate poster. I see there's a wave of oinkings going around.

The upgrade disks will ask you to simply pop in the disk for your previous version of windows so that you don't have to actually have Vista installed. At least that's how the XP upgrade was. You'll still have the option of doing a clean install, as that's the best way to ensure you'll get the best use out of the new OS.

Anyone know if this will be the standard upgrade price? If so, looks like they finally are doing some reasonable price structure.

"California customers are required to sign up for Micro Center Rewards Program."

No thanks.

Also, can you upgrade from an XP license (even though you can't actually upgrade from XP), or are all upgrades based on Vista?

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I thought 7 > XP > Vista... so XP to 7 would be an upgrade, Vista to 7 would be a major upgrade.

I also heard that 7 is what Vista should have been... just 2+ years late.

I bought a 'netbook' a month ago or so. It came with XP. Can I upgrade for $40? (I cant, because I dont have a micro center anywhere near me. But hypodermically?)

#5 - Not sure if Windows7 "upgrade" works like Vista "upgrade" but read this:

Workaround Discovered For "Clean Install" With Vista Upgrade DVDs: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932

Like #11 said is this a Vista only upgrade or if you are running Genuine Copy/Key of XP Professional, I can preorder this disc and ungrade for $90 and there no sipulations as to when it was purchased, OEM, etc?

All see is from microsoft...
"If you have Windows XP or Windows 2000, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. But you must back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications."
By that it sounds like you'd do backup, clean XP install, then the Upgrade disc, enter the XP key and then the Wind7 key and reinstall apps and folders. ok...

Honestly, I might (for the fist time) buy an OEM copy with CPU/Mobo/Dx11 upgrades and start on a new machine.

Does anyone know if the license applies to more than one computer?

bacon, if you keep trolling you'll get yourself banned again. You last ban was far too short. It's no wonder you can't make any friends with you being so paranoid and all.

In any case, you would all be well advised not to take bacon's information too seriously. Check his posting history if you want to know why he's considering the anal wart of this site.

http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Windows-Windows-7/category/102

this page has all the upgrade answers you could need, and you can also just order your upgrade from there as well.

#14 hypodermically? Are you trying to buy needles? <_<

Hypodermic

Hypothetically