Why is the VISTA upgrade Hamstrung? Please read and reply Microso

If people buy an upgrade version of Vista, and can only upgrade the existing
operating system, and discover the upgrade was corrupt due to viruses or
whatever, they will be forced to reinstall and activate XP, then upgrade
again?!? No clean install possible. The idea behind an upgrade has always
been if you are a previous owner, you are receiving a discount as a long time
user. I predict this apparent change will alienate the enthusiast community.

This is totally unfair, and certainly seems extremely unfriendly towards
customers. My XP Professional upgrade disk allows me a clean install, it is
bootable, and has diagnostics on it. Why does Vista not?

This is incredibly petty of Microsoft. It’s a mistake. The company will
definitely suffer serious repercussions if not corrected. It is simply bad
public relations. If Vista were a new movie in theatres that bombed on it’s
initial release, they would term it ‘box office poison’. If we can guide and
help Microsoft to see reality, maybe it’s not too late to avert disaster.

Reasonable compromise: 1) Make the upgrade disk bootable to utilities ONLY.
2) Force installation start from activated XP, BUT allow the option to have
the VISTA install format the drive and install clean after verifying the
genuine copy of XP.



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