Taking Advantage of the Windows 7 Upgrade Offer

Well, Windows 7 has been released, and it is a hit, and has garnered good reviews. Upon looking at the list of features included, I think I'd like it as well.

Perhaps the last side effect of my own technological debacle, in which I had to purchase a new laptop, is connected to this event. With the purchase of my Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5965, I got an offer for a free Windows 7 upgrade to my system.

I decided to wait on taking advantage of this until Windows 7 came out and any issues lurking with it could be reported. Now that it's been 3 days, I believe the window has passed for reporting major issues with the system, and it is also compatible with Simcity 4 (as Microsoft CEO Balmer broadly promised), thus I have sent out the required information to get my copy of Windows 7.

I probably will not upgrade my computers as soon as I get it, but I would like to have a copy around in case I do decide to go through with an upgrade.

That's my tale of Windows 7, and feel free to share yours in the comments column.

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Korot's Gravatar The CEO of Microsoft cares enough about SC4 to make a statement about it? Anyway, Haljackey was one of the beta testers, and he also found out that SC4 can run on it, though someone on the forums (either here or somewhere else) had difficulty running the game.

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Korot
» Posted By Korot | 10/30/09 12:56 PM
servan's Gravatar I upgraded my laptop the day released. I got the Microsoft $30 student promotion from Win741.com. SC4 works great, haven't had it crash once since moving from Vista. If someone has trouble running it it's probably a hardware or install issue since 7 can run anything especially with XP compatibility.
» Posted By servan | 10/30/09 1:38 PM
jamonbread's Gravatar Mine computer won't even run on windows properly because it doesnt have the proper drivers and its only a year old. So, other people who read this... be careful and look up specs on your computer!
» Posted By jamonbread | 10/30/09 5:47 PM
Patricius Maximus's Gravatar Thanks for your feedback, everyone. Keep in mind that I haven't upgraded anything as of now, and probably won't in the near future, but I have ordered the product.

"[Korot] The CEO of Microsoft cares enough about SC4 to make a statement about it?"

No, he did not specifically say anything about it(note: I said "broadly promised"), but he did say that any program which works on Windows Vista will work on Windows 7.

"[servan] I upgraded my laptop the day released. I got the Microsoft $30 student promotion from Win741.com. SC4 works great, haven't had it crash once since moving from Vista."

That's good news.

"[jamonbread] Mine computer won't even run on windows properly because it doesnt have the proper drivers and its only a year old."

I'll be sure to check on that, and also, my computer is only two months old, not a year old.
» Posted By Patricius Maximus | 11/1/09 2:32 PM
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