Upgrading to Windows 7
For a second I was actually thinking of updating the Windows on my old Athlon XP 2800+ PC to Windows 7. Virus updates were 288 days old — it had been a while I had logged into my Windows account since I’ve been using my MBP and running Ubuntu on the desktop. At work too I had just wiped out the Windows installation as I had not used it for a year and thought it was just a waste of my smallish harddrive that could serve my Ubuntu (Arch linux before that) better with some added LVM flexibility. I downloaded the compatibility test application and was really excited, maybe the Windows could have had something in it that would make me love it and actually find some use for it.
The test application told me I can’t upgrade my XP to 7 without doing a clean install. There is supposed to be some kind of a migration app that uses an external drive, but I don’t want to install all the software again. Well, it anyway says on the Microsoft website that I should buy a new PC for Windows 7 so maybe it’s not for me or for anyone else who think their old PC will do just fine as it is. Vice versa, I remember that actually downgrading from XP to 2000 helped some old PC’s to last yet few more years.
Oh, and how many Windows users are really excited about the Windows 7 launch date that is — I don’t know when. I haven’t been invited to any Windows 7 launch party to see what it is all about.
