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    Posted on November 2, 2009 at 19:26 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    ‘Softie Eric Ligman posted a provocative piece on the MSDN blogs entitled “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know.”

    While I readily admit to being a hack, in the original, pejorative sense of the term, Eric seems to be taking to task those folks who published the well-known trick that allows you to install a “full” version of Windows 7 from the “upgrade” DVD. With one small twist, the newly published tricks greatly resemble the old Vista bypass Brian Livingston wrote about in 2007.

    Yes, you read that correctly. The same workaround that allows you to install a “full” version of Windows Vista from the upgrade CD also works with the Windows 7 DVDs.

    He hit a nerve. Paul Thurrott posted a riposte.

    There’s a lot of confusion about the upgrade paths available to Windows owners, whether they’re officially endorsed or merely allowed by using hooks that Microsoft has supported for years. We can only hope that some enlightenment will be forthcoming. I, for one, won’t hold my breath.

    Watch my Windows Secrets column later this week for a coupla observations.

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