Just got Vista Ultimate, but I want Windows 7 - Will I have to pay full price when it becomes available? -

Ok, I know Windows 7 is not for sale yet. I needed a 64bit platform NOW, so I had to go with Vista 64. I know I can run the beta version of Win7, but its beta. My questions are, 1) when Windows 7 becomes available for purchase, will I have to pay full price since I just paid for Vista Ultimate and 2) if I buy just the upgrade version, does that mean it will only upgrade my Vista. In other words, can you do a clean install if you buy the upgrade versions? I am not a big fan of doing upgrades. I perfer to clean format the hard drive.

You can be hopefull that windows will do what they did with vista and xp. What happened is anyone who purchased xp within a 2 month period of the official release of vista could fill out some paperwork -gt; send it to windows and they would then honer them for a free vista upgrade. It has been leeked that Bill Gates, and CEO Steve Ballmer have stated that they will not dissipoint anyone who purchased vista near the release of the new windows 7. (the actual quot;free windows 7quot; has not been surly decided) Good Luck

Just because you have used Beta version, MS doesn t give you any discounts on the final version. You might get an upgrade version from Vista at a discount. Better stick with your Vista till a final stable version of 7 is going to be available. You can try the Beta but after the evaluation period, then I would suggest a total wipeout and reinstall Vista.

Currently there isn t any information on the subject at all. Some people think Windows 7 might just be a quot;patchquot; on top of Vista or will be freely available to Vista owners. It might be a full, complete OS (even then, you could always get the quot;upgradequot; version with no problems)

Its def not going to be a patch. They MIGHT offer it at a discount, but you will PROBABLY have to pay.