Windows 7 Upgrade is full retail?

moles

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I am hearing that the windows 7 upgrades are FULL retail. Is this true?

I can buy windows 7 upgrade and install on a new machine without a previous OS Cd key?
 
Just be careful that if you are intending on buying the upgrade, dont assume it will be retail.

However if you getting it via the student deal, it all looks good at the moment with it being retail :)
 
I formatted Vista X64 and ran my student professional upgrade off a USB... installed without a single issue.

In windows I simply entered my upgrade CD key and it said its genuine.
 
moles said:
I am hearing that the windows 7 upgrades are FULL retail. Is this true?
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What you are hearing about is with regards to the actual installation of Windows 7 in that you can install Windows 7 on a completely formatted hard drive even though you purchased the Windows 7 Upgrade. This news has no effect on the actual license of the Windows 7 Upgrade product.

At the end of the day, you still purchased a Windows 7 Upgrade license which means to comply with the licensing terms, you need to be installing Windows 7 on a system which has already been licensed to a previous version of Windows, either a copy of Windows XP or Windows Vista. It doesn't matter if the machine currently has either of those operating systems installed, as long as your previous copy of Windows is not being used, it's absolutely fine.

For those that will follow the licensing terms of an Upgrade license, the fact that they can now do a clean installation without any trouble is good news. However, for the people that will be purchasing the Windows 7 Upgrade product at the cheapest possible price because they know they can exploit this opportunity of being able to install Windows 7 on a formatted hard drive, it's not such good news.

lauy said:
If you look here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18055613&page=18

the student offer is the upgrade version but many people are reporting it as full retail as they installed and activated it successfully on a new hard drive.
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Just because the installation is the same between the Windows 7 Retail and the Windows 7 Upgrade product, does not make the product exactly the same. It's the license that makes the product different, not the installation method.
 
Fire Wizard said:
What you are hearing about is with regards to the actual installation of Windows 7 in that you can install Windows 7 on a completely formatted hard drive even though you purchased the Windows 7 Upgrade. This news has no effect on the actual license of the Windows 7 Upgrade product.

At the end of the day, you still purchased a Windows 7 Upgrade license which means to comply with the licensing terms, you need to be installing Windows 7 on a system which has already been licensed to a previous version of Windows, either a copy of Windows XP or Windows Vista. It doesn't matter if the machine currently has either of those operating systems installed, as long as your previous copy of Windows is not being used, it's absolutely fine.

For those that will follow the licensing terms of an Upgrade license, the fact that they can now do a clean installation without any trouble is good news. However, for the people that will be purchasing the Windows 7 Upgrade product at the cheapest possible price because they know they can exploit this opportunity of being able to install Windows 7 on a formatted hard drive, it's not such good news.



Just because the installation is the same between the Windows 7 Retail and the Windows 7 Upgrade product, does not make the product exactly the same. It's the license that makes the product different, not the installation method.
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Yeah just letting the guy know that the activation with the upgrade code given seems to be working.
 
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