


We know that for a set of customers this trade-off seems less than perfect, but we think the upfront time is well worth it." "We do provide support for moving files and settings and will prompt at setup time, but applications will need to be reinstalled. that having all of that support carry forth to Windows 7 would not be nearly as high quality as a clean install," said Microsoft. There are simply too many changes in how PCs have been configured. "We realised at the start of this project that the 'upgrade' from XP would not be an experience we think would yield the best results. The firm also reiterated yesterday it had no plans to offer an upgrade from its eight-year-old OS Windows XP to Windows 7. Meanwhile, those stick-in-the-muds who “really, really need to” bypass Microsoft’s request that they revert to Vista first will need to boot from a flash drive or another partition before modifying the build number in the “cversion.ini” file via text editor. "We don't always track them down and fix them because they take time away from bugs that would only manifest themselves during this one-time pre-release operation," it said. Microsoft also admitted that it tends to ignore glitches that occur when users upgrade from one pre-release build to another.
