Hi

I'm seriously considering changing from Windows Vista to Windows 7.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/buy/default.aspx
My question is what's the best to buy an upgrade or Full Version & what is the difference between them.

Things to take in to account is the fact I already have Vista pre-installed on my laptop.


Thank you.

This post has been edited by manicd: Oct 26 2009, 03:38 PM

Upgrades are problematic, because your installing twice in a way, this can also make recovery an issue, don't know enough to say for sure, but an upgrade disk may not be man enough to do a recovery ?
As I say I can't be sure, but have a vague recollection of such an issue in the past with upgrade disks, so in simple terms if your paying out, get the full version, simples as, no surprises ahead that way, you can get Win7 Ultimate for just under £150, and only a couple of quid difference between 32bit and 64bit.

A quick thought, as Win7 was getting close they started releasing upgrade offers, I didn't pay much notice to them, but I thought they were like a full swap from vista where you gave vista up and went Win7 in full, did you have something like this on your vista deal ?
But an important note to remember when you do this, using Win7 to do a clean install will format the drive, by doing this your partition holding the vista files will be gone, forever probably, so the ONLY way back is to get a vista disk, as said in the other thread I think it was, you can borrow a disk and use the sticker on your system and it will work fine, the bonus is you gain another 10gig of drive, downside is when the partition is gone thats it.