Windows XP To Windows 7 Upgrade Confirmed

Well! It's about time Microsoft noticed the people running XP (the majority of computing shares anyways). Good for Microsoft, I think this will be beneficial, especially if people running XP see the new crisp graphics and UI.

Glad to hear that MS is offering price discount to upgrades for WinXP user, this will do a lot to help speed up the faze out of WinXP.

I hope that they really push the upgrade discount in the business sector and make it even easier for Vista user to upgrade to Win7.

Glad to hear that, If I can get a discount I would upgrade immediatly!!

i know i'm not the first person to say the reason for the change of heart in bill, simple, the econemy, bill's scured, lol people have known he had the capability to do these things sense xp sp2. bill's afraid he'll become "GM" and now decides to understand needs listen and accept pocket cuts. hopefully he'll listen and start designing a newer legacy os like people desire.  imagine.... windows LIGHTning

It’s a very clever move from Microsoft. Not only do they reach more potential customers this way, but also leave their traditional upgrade-scenario behind and all issues that were related with it.
My belief is that Microsoft will most likely still get some bashing from XP-users that are not too keen on installing a new OS and all applications they’re running from scratch - but in my opinion this is truly the most optimal scenario. There is no other sustainable solution that would’ve worked better.

I work for an IT company administering many small business networks and none of them will upgrade for any price unless it is an inplace upgrade. I am also a former Government administrator and I know that the government will not upgrade if new hardware is required and the government's archaic administration programs work as was the case with Vista.  XP supported or not if it takes wiping a hard drive to upgrade I haven't spoken to a corporate IT person who is willing to risk their career on Microsoft saying it will work.......what if it doesn't?

I do not think that Microsoft is leaving out the transitional upgrade from XP because of any deadline. Last year, they said Windows 7 was scheduled for release in 2010. Now they are saying it could be as early as Christmas this year. It may be a blessing in disguise, as Windows upgrades rarely work out. This move could save themselves and all the companies in the world billions in tech support costs

What's not being said at this point is how much computer is necessary to run Windows 7 adequately. Remember the old line on Vista was 2 Ghz and 2 GB RAM.  That of course, turned out to be inadequate. Now we should wait, wait, wait and see!

From what I has seen posted here on it runs on well on low powered and old systems alike.
1MZ CPU, 512MB RAM and DX9 GPU seen to be a good starting point. Checkout this artilic on netbooks here > http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Windows-seven-Netbo....
The may issue with Win7 will be drivers support for older hardware, but if it supports Vista then it should support Win7.

Not sure what the minimum is but it ran on a Compaq N610c laptop.  Radian Mobile 7500 video, 1 gig of RAM, 2 gig Pentium 4.  From about 2003 or even earlier.  Vista would not even load, never mind instal.


Win 7 ran better than even XP but not quite as good as Windows 2000 Pro.  Did better then Linux and recognized all hardware even the Linksys pmcia wireless card.


I was impressed.  I do have a Vista laptop that is on par with my XP laptop in terms of speed.  I have no problems with Vista but may get Win 7 as the Vista Home Premium I have will not network, how stupid can one get, even XP home will do that.


In using 2000, XP and Vista, it almost seems as if Vista is a outgrowth of XP where they integrated all the hanging modules into a nice OS.  Win 7 almost seemed like they went back to 2000 Pro that is a light and fast OS compared to XP and did Win 7 from it.  I know they did not but it almost seems to be what happened from the speed.