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Windows Anytime Upgrade Process

Today I decided to upgrade my wife’s laptop to Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.  It had been running Windows 7 Home Premium but I could not use Remote Desktop to get into the system from afar so I decided it was time for Ultimate which would allow that.

Now back in the . . .

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Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing Revealed

Microsoft Product Manager Michelle Haven confirmed details of the Windows Anytime Upgrade (also referred to as WAU) and Family Pack pricing late last week.  Brandon LeBlanc broke down the finer details at the Windows 7 Team Blog at Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing.

The quick and dirty on . . .

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Making the move to Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit Edition

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I posted a few weeks ago about installing Vista Ultimate x64 Edition on my desktop and how that experience went.  Since that time I have probably booted into Vista x64 less than 10 times and as for spending any amount of time in the OS – almost nothing – zip – zilch – . . .

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Windows Vista 64 Bit Installation Experience

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A couple of weeks ago stories started to appear on the Internet talking about the increased percentages of 64 bit Windows that was accessing the Windows Update site and I got intrigued about trying to run the 64 bit system again myself.

So I went ahead and cleared out my secondary . . .

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