Windows 7 has lower hardware requirements than Windows Vista, and runs beautifully on every machine I have installed it to. Since January I have literally installed the Windows 7 beta (and then the release candidate) onto dozens of my PCs and Macs - Atom mini-ITX boards, my Atom Acer Aspire netbook, my Shuttle X27, old Pentium 4 machines that crawled under Windows Vista, old Dell Pentium M laptops, my Macbook, my Mac Pro, my iMac, even a few AMD machines. While Windows 7 did not officially release until October 22 of this year, anybody in the world suffering through Windows Vista has had the opportunity, and should have, upgraded to the Windows 7 release candidate months earlier. Microsoft followed up the beta with a free Windows 7 release candidate this summer, which does not expire until well into next year. This was profound for a couple of reasons - first, that Microsoft would actually post a totally free Windows beta release to the public, and second, the beta that was immediately far superiour to Windows Vista. This past January, while I was down at Macworld Expo 2009 being disappointed by Apple (read Macworld Expo R.I.P.), Microsoft surprised the world with a downloadable Windows 7 beta. Windows 7 finally is worthy of such similar praise.
It was back then, having beta tested XP for several months and using the XP beta as the demo platform at Macworld Expo New York 2001, that I felt compelled to write this XP tutorial urging people to upgrade from DOS-based Windows releases (Win95/98/Me) to the NT-based Windows XP. In October, Microsoft finally launched Windows 7, the best Windows release since the launch of Windows XP exactly 8 years earlier.
What I will show you is how to do the one thing they all tell you cannot be done: upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 without losing any of your documents of applications and without re-installing Windows or your applications from scratch. I am not going to go into the detailed features of Windows 7 or list 15 great reasons to upgrade to it - plenty of web sites and print magazines have already told you to do that. But that's not what this posting is about. Your purchase of Windows 7 will hopefully drive up the value of that stock. Yes, you can easily upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7īy Darek Mihocka, President and Founder, įull disclosure: I like Windows 7 very much and have been buying up Microsoft stock. Emulators Online - Upgrade Windows XP To Windows 7