UPDATE:
Please read this – why Windows 7 should have been FREE for every Vista user!
OK, up front I am NOT a Microsoft hater. I use XP on one of my PC’s and have a laptop that came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. Yes, I also use a MacBook Pro and have a Linux system – so I think I can make the next statement with a clear conscience. Here it goes.
Microsoft, please do ‘the right thing’ and give us Vista users a free or reduced upgrade route to Windows 7
Why am I asking this? OK, so Windows Vista is not quite as horrible as many people say. I am the first to admit it. A lot of the flack Vista got was uncalled for. However, a lot of the flack Vista got is totally valid and I believe Microsoft already know this.
By hawking Windows 7 to the media and public as a faster, less resource hungry and all round better OS – Microsoft are clearly going to lose a STACK of sales.
Why upgrade to Vista now; when Windows 7 seems to offer a better upgrade route from your XP system than Vista does?
Why buy Vista today, knowing Microsoft are themselves trying to get you to focus on the NEXT Windows OS?
Since bringing Windows Vista to market, Microsoft has not only received a stack of bad publicity – it has ALSO caused those who use Vista to suffer with a s-l-o-w-e-r system than we deserve. If you don’t believe me, stick a copy of XP on a machine running Vista and watch it fly! (Or stick a linux OS on it and watch it leave the fricking planet :) )
I believe Microsoft can turn some of the problems and bad publicity surrounding Vista into a plus – if they offer Vista users either a free upgrade to Windows 7 or at least a discount upgrade route.
Here’s where YOU come in.
Do you think there’s any reason for Microsoft to offer Vista users a less expensive Windows 7 upgrade route? Maybe you think they Vista users got what they deserved for not downgrading to XP or a Linux OS. Let us know what YOU think!
Honestly………..If you have a PC or Lap-Top with the right hardware windows vista is actually a very stable and a down right great OS that offers so much more than windows xp ever could. I do still like windows xp and use it on my laptop but doing as much graphic design as I do I find myself using vista more and more. I have found that I can do so much more with vista that I other wise would not be able to do with xp. Obviously my hardware is slightly excessive as I am running Eight Gigs of RAM, Core 2 Duo Quad Core Q6600 Processor, with an ASUS EN 8800 GTS DD3 Graphic Card, 600 Watt power supply, a Seagate Barracuda 10,000 RPM Hard Drive, Logitech G-15 Keyboard, Logitech G-5 Mouse, Toshiba 1080P LCD Television as a Monitor and I have had a Very great Windows Vista Experience. At the time that I built this machine (Desk Top) the total investment was aprox. $1,700.00 and I built the whole thing myself and over clocked the RAM, Processor, Video Card. I ran Linux on it as a test for about one week and I just could not believe the raw power of it all. Even running Windows Vista it is incredibly fast and frankly every friend that has used it is just blown away by the performance of my Desktop but they just are not willing to put out the $$$ to build such a machine. My Machine is three years old now and runs just as fast as the day I built it. My opinion is…..for what ever it’s worth is ……………simply windows vista users are entitled to a FREE windows 7 upgrade just because we stuck by Microsoft when we really shouldn’t have. I believe that such customer loyalty should be rewarded and seriously they Meaning Microsoft can afford it as well as can for a fact use the tax right off. Customer Loyalty should be rewarded simply because the money that we all invested in hardware to keep up with vista….come on for the same price I could have gone to Apple and used a whole lot less hardware to accomplish the same performance or even linux. Whats right is just simply right and rewarding vista users with a free upgrade would be the right thing to do. For the record my windows experience index is a grand total of 5.9 all across the board. I have not even seen that rating on any machine so far and not even in anything in any retailer stores and that is why I think that vista users should be rewarded with a free windows 7 upgrade. We stuck with them when we should not have and when times were tough for them and that kind of loyalty is not so common now days.
Disgusted in Northridge,CA.
David M. Zehr
P.S. MICROSOFT / BILL GATES NEEDS A CAN OF ……GET RIGHT AND A SHORT LESSON ON HOW TO SHOW CUSTOMER APPRECIATION.
I rather have XP over Vista any day of the week. When I purchased my new laptop, I had no choice but to have Vista and I tried to beg and plead to get XP. If Windows 7 holds up to the hype that it has developed, I think that it need to be free or at a discounted rate for the individuals that had no choice but to get Vista.
I brought a Vista Ultimate x64 on 2-Apr-2008 for around US$358 (HK$2788). Price over three hundred bucks and the product is used only 1 and a half year. Now MS offered nothing to me? No word telling the upgrade price? I don’t expect a free upgrade as I have used the Vista for 1.5 year but they should have provided a decent discount!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
windows seven should be totally a free upgrade to all vista users because they are only fixing THEIR mistakes
Quite a few people think that as Vista users, not only should we get Win7 for free – BUT – We should get a payment for being beta testers for Win7. Every Vista, like it or not, was an unpaid beta tester for Windows 7!
I totally agree! I have been suffering from the lackluster attitude of Vista for far too long. Not only it sucks, it prevented a lot of my favorite programs to run efficiently. Pay us the due, Mr Gates.
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Vista is a pain. It has been a pain since day one. Not just the renamed programs and cheap ass Windows Mail. It is slow, I had to upgrade most of my graphics programs, when I tried to do the Sp2 MS gave up on helping me and I had to do a clean install.
Vista will be a pain in MS side for a long time. It makes economic since to cut your losses. Give every Vista user a free upgrade to W7. Then there would be no support issues for the dog called Vista. They would be applauded by the computing community for doing the right thing.
Fess up MS Vista sucks.
I bought Vista the day it hit the stores. It was at least 2 months of fustration and work to get most everthing to work on my computer. Most everthing I used at the time was Microsof (hardware and software), After several up loads from Microsoft, things have worked pretty good. tdhere are still problems with some software. I am tempted to conver everything to a Mac and leave MS in the dust.
We should totally get a free upgrade or at least a discount! Microsoft is being very unfair to us. i mean we slaved for the past 1.5 years trying to find fixes, patches and workaround for programs not compatible with vista. We have had to upgrade ram, graphics card just to play games with minimal settings while being able to set it on high in xp. We have tried and beta tested YOUR problems and now you want us to pay for an upgrade that was never the consumer’s fault? microsoft had better revise its marketing strategies before it loses the consumer’s confidence. Ever wondered why some people prefer linux, mac over windows? its because of windows annoying money minded policies
Releasing Vista with a bunch of problems is just cynical abuse of monopoly power. Windows 7 is promised to be better, but why did Microsoft make people pay for so many crappy operating systems leading up to Windows 7? And why do people saddled with Vista have to pay to get what they should have always had. I have a Dell notebook running Windows Vista and a Macbook running OSX with the same processing power, and the Mac is much, much faster while the stupid Dell Vista machine locks up all the time. What crap. On a related note, changing Office to Office 2007 is another abuse of monopoly power – there is a huge learning curve but zero payoff for any of the Office users that I know. I know how to use Office 2003, and I (and probably most Office users) only need about 10% of the features available in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint to do our jobs. What an infuriating pain in the ass it is to have to learn Office 2007 instead of just doing our jobs. Microsoft just sucks, and I hope they go bankrupt
FREE Upgrade to Windows 7 for Vista users? http://bit.ly/15GPfR
(Via @thetechnewsblog)
I couldn’t agree more. I’m fairly anti-windows, but still have XP, but avoid Vista like the plague. I’m using the 7 RC, and it’s a real step forward for Microsoft. I think Microsoft should give it away to all Vista users.
Totally!
Microsoft have produced a vastly improved OS, yet have still shot themselves in the foot – by making it so expensive for Vista users (many of whom see themselves as unpaid Windows 7 beta testers!!)
I too think that Microsoft should upgrade Vista users to Windows 7 but for a very valid reason. Vista is still broken. The KSOD and BSOD continues to riddle machines. I believe it is the nature of the system resulting from increased security and in preventing its bootlegging (pirating – I’m 63, ugly, and fat – use a few terms that mean something from my younger years when pirates were something other than software hackers and Somali government agents.)
I further believe Microsoft elected not to fix the issues that cause these issues for their own concern in opposition to the user’s. Pirating would never have been the issue it is with Gates and company if they priced their software such that just 20% more of the users would have felt Windows was priced in accordance with the value a user actually received. As it is to this point, consumer oriented Operating Systems written by M$ have been woefully inadequate and disappointing on their release and typically were not repaired for more than a year.
Experience tells me Win7 will also fail to be the value it is described at the outset. I desire to be wrong about this.
I elected not to test the RC when I discovered that my test machine would require a clean installation, a clean uninstallation, a clean reinstallation if I decided to install Win7 in its final form, and it would shut the machine down every two hours, months before the license was scheduled to expire. That made it very obvious we were not testing the true Windows 7, or I hope that the RTM does not have such built in features.
I think we should all continue to use our current OS until we are assured the Win7 works, M$ either repairs or replaces Vista at no cost to the user, and affords additional benefits to all who have been loyal customers over the years.
But, I like jock itch.
I don’t understand why everyone complains about VISTA, I have it on my eMachine and am very happy with it. However I quit using IE of any sorts because it kept locking up and didn’t do the fancy things it was suppose to, so I turned to FireFox and now wouldn’t trade it for anything. But it gets along fine with VISTA and I haven’t had the problems with compatibility that some have complained about.
I got Vista 64-bit Vista Home Premium as OEM with my new machine and Firefox cheerfully tells me that it will not run on a 64-bit OS at this time but they are working on it.
What I thought is really rich is someone said that Vista was going to rock for musicians.
Now go monitor your line-in as you record. Hear nothing?
That’s right. Nothing. Oh the drivers, the drivers. I ended up dual booting with an old copy of XP and then never bothering to mend the bootloader to get back into Vista!
For this, and many other typically misleading statements that can be seen in many a Windows install, Windows 7 is going to clearly need to be free to Vista users.
No more mistakes in your understanding of how people are using PC’s, MS. Windows 98 is still in mental record. Remember that!
I totally agree that Windows 7 SHOULD BE FREE for existing Vista Users that unknowingly bought an OS that simply DOES NOT WORK!!! We bought Vista thinking it was good but it’s not our fault that they sold us CRAP; they need to fix ‘US’ for FREE!!
I bought a new laptop in Dec 08 and have had NOTHING but trouble with Vista x64 Home Premium on a daily basis.
Since getting VISTA, I’ve come home from the office and spent almost EVERY NITE since December trying to fix all the problems SO I DON’T GET FIRED!!
This has been VERY frustrating for me having to raise 2 kids alone and have to put up with all this DAILY FRUSTRATION!! It’s not made me the easiest person to be around ‘because I’m always so MAD, not to mention the many many all nighters I’ve had to pull just to accomplish a few simple things for work…. This has left me totally ‘exhausted’ every day therefore causing me to get in a car accident because of sleep deprivation and has left absolutely NO time to spend with my kids! That is just WRONG!
I work in Mortgages and it’s hard enough right now to get a decent loan but then when I do, I’m not able to give my clients good service because I made the mistake of buying a new computer with Vista in Dec. 08. I’ve been working my butt off and have only closed one loan making a big $1500 (yes, that’s One thousand, five hundred dollars) from Jan.1-Oct. 15, 2009 due to this crappy OS!! This has lead me use the Local Food Bank for food, ruined my credit ‘cause I can’t pay my bills, & basically has ‘taken over’ the last year of my life losing friends in the process.
I realize that my profession has not been the greatest business to be in over the last year or so but on the other hand, all my co-workers have closed a lot of loans this year and I’m left looking like the ‘Office Idiot’. Thanks Vista! (NOT!) They should be paying me for all the time & effort I’ve spent in Vista helping MS to figure out all the mistakes. I’ve lost money and friends because of this OS!
SOOOO NOT cool for a single Mom that’s just wants to do her job, support her family and just have my Computer WORK like it should have all along!!!! Why should we pay ANYTHING at all when most of us have had nothing but MAJOR Problems!?? Soooo NOT OUR FAULT!!
MS will be lucky if there’s not a class action Law Suit against them for this. That’s gonna cost them A LOT MORE in the long run than to just buck up and do the right thing for the consumers that TRUSTED THEM because we’re right and it is THEIR RESPONSIBILITY to provide the consumer with a Product that Works AND IF IT DOESN’T, DO THE RIGHT THING AND FIX IT!! PLEASE!
I hope MS will be OK knowing that they made a single Mom lose EVERYTHING because I’m broke, at the end of my wit and will most likely get kicked out onto the street with my 16 year old daughter soon because I don’t have even the $49.99 TO UPGRADE??!!! I don’t have a dollar to my name right now and they say they’re not going to help me get out of this piece of junk therefore putting a Mother and Daughter out on the street because THEY screwed up THEIR programming and now I’m suppose to pay AGAIN for their mistakes???? Wow! This floors me!!!
If this isn’t made right, I will also be buying an Apple someday but then who needs a computer when you’re living under a bridge???
If MS is trying to forget Vista and put it all behind them, then why WOULDN‘T they upgrade existing Vista users for FREE so they don’t have to deal with the Vista ‘BS’ anymore!! PAY ATTENION MS,WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!! (YOU CATCH MORE FLIES WITH HONEY THAN VINEGAR)
OPEN YOUR EYES MS!! REMEMBER THAT WORD OF MOUTH IS EVERYTHING AND YOU’RE GONNA GET BITTEN IN THE BUTT BY NOT OFFERING A FREE UPGRADE (VERY VERY SOON) TO EXISTING VISTA USERS. (WELL, ITS NOT EVEN USABLE SO WOULDN’T GO SO FAR AS TO EVEN CALL US ‘USERS’ ‘CAUSE WE CAN NEVER ACTUALLY USE IT!!!!)
I bought a Vista computer 2 years ago and then upgraded it to Ultimate and will be genuinely pissed off if I have to pay much more than $50 to get Windows 7. Those of us who trusted Microsoft 2 years ago should be generously rewarded for our faithfulness and determination to make this OS work when we could have sold our damn computers and bought Macs! What we had been promised in Vista Ultimate never got delivered!
[...] demands of it’s users. Many are so mad after their Vista experiences, that they wanted a FREE Windows 7 upgrade. This was clearly never going to happen. But by shipping Windows 7 for almost the same price as [...]
Hmmm, I purchased an Acer Laptop 5738G on August 10 2009, now I think this is deserving for a free upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 whatever, whenever it released. Only thing is no proper mention of being a paid upgrade or free upgrade is mentioned in the sites. I guess it will be a paid one(which is BS) and also wonder about Ultimate or Family Pack Upgrades availability for India. Prices for each country should be mentioned in its respectful currency to avoid confusion too. I would like to see a chart with options to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 with price(if applicable for stuff purchased after July 1, 2009) whereas am confused some/many blogs/sites claiming FREE upgrade like they are the official Microsoft sites, whereas the real Acer/Microsoft upgrade sites make no mention of that and appear to be first pay for shipping and later before shipping applicable cost! Somebody has to get this stuff cleared out and give consumers the TRUE options/details regarding the same.
I love vista…. i havent had any problems
If you purchase make a qualified Dell purchase with Vista, you are currently eligible for a “free upgrade”… plus shipping, handling and taxes. Chat tells me that this “free upgrade” costs $25 for a laptop and $35 for a desktop.
Bait. And. Switch. IMHO. You shouldn’t have to spend 10 minutes waiting for chat to get this info.
I recently bought new pc.Paid over $600 for it. It came equipped with Vista. I hate it. Slower than my old pc and constantly loses connection and reconnects. I can’t send sms messages anymore can’t play games with my friends from messenger. I have never been so disappointed in a pc performance before. All connections have been checked by my provider so there is no reason for this loss or slow connection. I agree with everyone else. Vista is like ME..a nightmare and an upgrade should be free. My pc is an HP 2009. Does this mean I’m stuck because it’s not Dell?
Cindy -
MS has a list of participating manufacturers offering an upgrade program:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/upgrade.aspx
I’d contact your PC builder and see whether they offer an upgrade and what the total fees will be. As I said earlier, it appears that Dell used highly misleading pricing language.
Good luck with your purchase. You might be want to google “Vista tweaks”: if you turn off some of the nonsense your system will run faster. I don’t know about those connections though.
I just acquired a new PC in the past week. Setup certainly consumes time.
Thanks for that help Sam!
I think Microsoft should allow an upgrade for vista users becuase gista is not what it has cracked up to be. If they don’t give us a free upgrade then they should at least give us a discount for a windows 7 upgrade. This is appropriate because Microsoft would be caring for their customers and make them happy by providing an upgrade to windows 7. The upgrade should be the FULL upgrade instead of a slightly different version. We vista users should get a free or a discount for an upgrade to windows 7.
Windows 7 should be free to all windows vista users, I see it as a large file to patch up Windows Vista as a update not a upgrade. No discount at all.
Not only has Vista been a pain, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth…it caused my system to overheat several times, and then fried my HDD. Then killed my MB, it has done nothing but caused me trouble. I am happy 7 is right around the corner, I’ve been using the RC and I’m very happy with it, but you have to have a pretty up to date specs to use it. Releasing Vista was a mistake, they would’ve been better off waiting and fixing as many bugs as they possible could, then beta testing it, then only releasing it after all the problems were fixed.
That’s the problem with Microsoft…they just throw out a new OS without making sure their trump card even works, if that really wanna kill Mac’s and Linux, then they should hold off on 7′s release until they can fix all the XP compatibility issues, and not just using XP as a crutch to save their ass, b/c that’s what XP Mode is all about. They need to hold off, then fix 7 to where you don’t even need XP Mode, make all XP games work on 7, then release it. B/c alot of gamers will be buying 7, in good hopes their games will be running faster, and I was very disappointed in hearing about XP Mode, I think it’s a mistake…as mistake that’ll keep Microsoft from putting down Mac and Linux in the way they plan on doing.
I have a computer that came with Vista 32bit Home Premium on it. I would have preferred XP, considering I am an avid gamer and have noticed a significant difference in the quality/speed of my gaming. Also, all the little problems vista said it was trying to fix, well, the majority of the time it didn’t. I would very much appreciate getting a free upgrade to 7 considering I never wanted Vista in the first place..
I’ve had Vista 64 bit installed on a PC I built myself for about a year now. It runs games great, and runs Photoshop CS3. I agree that when Vista was first released, there where more compatibility issues than was advertised, primarily due to lag in compatible hardware drivers from various manufacturers. My experience has been that now Vista is a stable operating system. As far as I’m concerned any improvments coming in Windows 7 is just icing on the cake. Also, from reading many many message boards where bashing Vista is a pass time, I find many complaints from users is due to a lack of understanding of what is required to have a stable PC. For example, someone will decide they know enough about computers to build their own. They cram their motherboard and other hardware in a PC case to small for adequate cooling, which causes overheating, or they use a power supply without enough power for the hardware they’re using. Or they have no idea how to setup BIOS for their particular hardware. You get the idea. Then when their system is unstable, they want to blame the operating system. Have seen it over and over.
As for getting Vista for FREE. NO. However, I do think Vista users should get a substantial discount over XP users.
Windows have already let us have a free upgrade and its due on the 7th of October (hopeful) which is GREAT news for us Vista Users, n i think it’s only for Home Premium.
I use vista ultimate on both of my pcs, and the fact I am getting shafted with a new OS that is essentially Vista 2.0 except wrote better is completely and utterly infuriating!!!
If NEED to offer at least a discount to Vista Ultimate users to the ultimate W7. and like wise to the rest. Home Vista to Home W7. This should be a cheap upgrade as well easily 100$, or less. if this is not offered then they are going to lose sales, because i know myself I will not buy it, and with the internet there is always a way around buying anything digital, but I will legitimately buy this IFF (if and only if) I am offered a discount, or lets be honest I will get it anyway for free from the city since they will be moving to W7 as well, but I want to actually buy the product instead of doing that. HELP US HELP YOU MICROSOFT!!!
I purchased vista as soon as it came out, and have been a loyal windows user forever…Ive never expected a handout or a free upgrade. THAT IS TILL NOW.
I wont repeat all thats been said, but on the personal side, I feel that if Im charged for the upgrade…it will feel like being gouged, or ripped off…
I almost had a feeling that this bad OS was a HAHA by bill gates to show his company its not as easy as it looks as this is the 1st OS to come out since his retirement, if Im not mistaken…
That said, I think 7 should be free for loyal users of…and not just recent purchasers of vista.
I’m a MS certified software engineer and long time computer enthusiast. For me personally, I very much regret purchasing Vista Ultimate. I’ve been forced to totally revise my PC’s hardware to keep things ticking over the way they did with XP. Even then it’s slow, and manages memory terribly. The fact that you can decompress a zip file in 2 seconds Winzip, while the internal decompression takes 30 seconds (for example) is just rediculous. Visually it’s great but performance-wise it fails short of my expectations by a long way. Two free copies of Windows 7 Ultimate may restore some faith in Microsoft & Windows – but I won’t be purchasing Windows 7.
It may be that some of the flack aimed at Vista is unwarranted, but I bought a top-of-the-line Dell laptop with Vista Home Premium as OEM in May. The machine rapidly became inoperable. Apps sometimes run and sometimes don’t. When they do run, they do so for 5 to 20 minutes then freeze. Windows task manager assures me that the app is running but it isn’t. Two friends who earn their living as high-level computer jocks have worked on my machine and ended up running from my desk screaming, holding their head in their hands. As a result of this, one of them spent an extra $200 to get XP when he recently bought a new computer. Dell techies have no clue. And, because I missed the July 1 date by about 6 weeks, I don’t get the free upgrade to 7. Mac anyone?
I have a couple of years of DAW/Audio/VST/Recording experience with XP and all I can say is the best…but when I bought my 2.1/4GB Acer laptop worth over 850EUR(more than $1000) with Vista Home Premium I was really dissapointed with the OS. I own an external E-MU 0404 sound card worth a lot…and still have trouble with drivers and driver sharing. the main reason I bought it was my profession – design, but it really sucks not to be able to fully work on my biggest hobby – making music – on the same machine.
Why the heck Vista can’t share audio drivers? Will it be the same on W7? If that’s the case, I’d rather buy a copy of XP and work with knowing ALL my VST instruments, DAW softare and MIDI software WORK. That’s it, they just work…
I saw Acer offers an upgrade to 7 but I am still not sure wether to order, maybe it will suck more in that aspect?
I bought a Dell Inspiron with Winodows Vista Home Premium in 2008. With 2 GB of ram I crashes at least three to four times in a week. It is horrible. I have used XP before and it is much more faster, reliable and better. After paying a premium to get a Vista Home premium, I think all Vista users should be given a free upgrade to Windows 7.
Microsoft should think twice before commercially launching any such defective softwares. Users like us, who pay so much money for new products are taken for a ride, when without improving Vista, MS goes ahead and launches a new OS. At least offer a good discount to Vista users or the best to give a free upgrade to Vista users. …. :)
i’m so fed up with microsoft at this point. i’m relatively happy with vista…… there are many bugs, but i bought it to go ahead and get started with learning it. i was expecting a simple comprehensive upgrade (whether in a new service pack or whatever) to be offered for FREE. had i known they’d be releasing windows 7 less than a year after my vista purchase, i would have held off for windows 7.
I REALLY DO NOT LIKE HAVING TO PAY TWICE FOR THE MODERN MICROSOFT OS, WHEN THE SIMPLE FIXES THEY’VE MADE (and so soon after vista’s release) SHOULD BE OFFERED TO <<<<<>>>>> instead, we’re the ones being slighted here. i don’t know if i’ll upgrade to windows 7. i definitely won’t pay for it, i’ll just find a way to pirate it….. IF i do decide to upgrade. i don’t want to roll back to XP, and i don’t particularly want to keep using vista (i was fine with the bugs when i expected they’d be taken care of in the future)……..
honestly, i’ll consider abandoning all microsoft products before i will pay twice for the same damn operating system.
please, someone start a huge petitioning campaign to let microsoft know what we really think about what they’re doing here.
Give us poor Vista users a free upgrade, Microsoft! You can afford it, and you’ll get a lot of goodwill from those of us who have remained faithful to your products through the years. Vista is NOT a good system, you know it and we know it. We’ve paid and paid again to get fixes and heaven knows what, and I’m still not happy. Making us pay to get the Windows 7 upgrade or downgrade (whichever you want to call it) is materialism at its worst.
Well, i bought windows ultimate for £360, thats about 600 us dollars. I bought it about a year ago and now they release windows 7? this is an absolute joke that people who pay stupid amounts for an OS should get an upgrade if they bring out a newer version, Vista is poor to say the least, slow, buggy, full of stuff no-one will ever use like the sidebar! absolutly fuming windows ultimate buyers are not offered a free upgrade, now i have to buy another version of windows that is probably inferior like the last one i was ripped off with.
Volks, think about migrating to alternative OS
like MacOS or completely free Linux. Windows sucks!
RT @thetechnewsblog: FREE Upgrade to Windows 7 for Vista users? http://bit.ly/3w8n77
Vista OS is a diaster. I have been an MS user since DOS and have been through every operating system since and Vista is simply horrible. It has caused more issues in system performance (speed), reliability (crashes) and created a significant frustration level.
I am looking into converting to Linux or go to the MAC altogether and leave MS as a distant memory.
Coming from a service industry where customer satisfaction is the difference between a companies success or failure MS must provide a free, yes FREE, upgrade to Windows 7 to solve the inherent issues in Vista or forever damage their reputation and lose significant customers.
Come on Bill, open your wallet and help out the millions of people who allowed you to amass the single largest networth of anyone on the planet.
Yes Microsoft should offer a free or greatly reduced upgrade option. Vista was definitely not one of their better products out there. They even know that. A better question is why shouldn’t they. Are they proud of Vista that they would enjoy the ones who tried to support it suffering through this inferior product?
chris ya i find it hard to work with vista i hope microsoft will have a considaration to give a new software for those whos seffering in vista at this time i know that they know this
I AM SUPPOSE TO GET A FREE WINDOWS SEVEN UP GRADE HOWEVER HP IS TRYING TO CHARGE SHIPPING AND HANDLING THE ONLY OTHER COMPANY TO DO THIS IS SONY. FREE MEANS FREE NO SHIPPING NO HANDLING ONLY A MORON CHARGES IT AND ONLY A MORON PAYS IT, FREE MEANS FREE
Vista was a half done program that ran half the programs that I need to run. It was a poor programming Mistake on MS part, Vista users should get a free upgrade the windows 7 for all the pain we endured
An edition of Vista came on the lap top I bought a couple of years ago and it has been nothing but trouble. The dreaded “blue screen” seems to like to live in my computer. I have lost 100s of document and too many to count hours of fixing after the system crashes and recreating document.
I think Microsoft should give all Vista users a free upgrade because of the time lost. It would take much of my bitter taste about Microsoft away!
I Got vista preinstalled on my new desktop, which cost a arm and a leg, but nothing worked with it so in stead of buying all my apps again i had to duel doot with my old xp so i could use all my programs, i do not have any programs that actually work with vista, although it has some nice bits i do feel cheated by vista, especialy when things just go missing and it is hell trying to find there actual location.
If they dont give us at least a discount it just proves that they are only after one thing, MONEY! and they know they have us in a corner, stick with vista and suffer or make Microsoft richer and get what we should have already!!!
I have an HP laptop that came with Vista 32bit Home Premium on it and I didn’t have any installation disk.
So I WANT the upgrade for FREE! I bought it two years ago and I don’t understand why we “old” users are not eligible to a free upgrade.
Windows Vista isn’t a car or a kitchen appliance that becomes less valuable as time goes on. My Windows Vista is not rusty like an old car and I want the upgrade totally free (or with a SIGNIFICANT discount).
[...] As long time readers will know, I believe Windows 7 should be given to Windows Vista users, as a free upgrade. [...]
Gday there, i agree with what alot of people here are saying , windows vista sucks, i bought myself a new laptop for teh first time, paid just under 1000-00 au dollars for it, for ever fghting my way around vista, i regret not buying now a mac book air, or a diff operating system, i cant see microsft giving us a free or a discounted version on windows 7, even tho i feel MS hav stuffed alot of us vista users, We were guinea pigs for them , and they wuld had been sitting back laughing a there sales , knowing that it was a an unstable OS. I think and hope mcrosft will do the right thing by us, an at least give us Windows 7 wth a good 50% discount on it, i mean they have made there money.
Time will tell , and hey all you vista users out there im with you, i have had too reformat my laptop 3 times so far this year as it kep crashes, its a toshiba satelite pro.
If you would like to contact me via email or start a petition and get as many signatuires on it and forward it 2 microsft contact me at spunky_027@msn.com
Well im hoping that MS Meets us vista users half way at east
I had a PC with XP Home and my son got a Vesta Notebook Compaq, He always wants to stuck to my computer and hates his notebook companq because he is unhappy with Vesta. I think microsoft will upgrade his vesta and I will be free wih my PC XP Home.
Windows 7 should be entirely free given the headaches and time I have consumed with Vista. At the very least if there is not some discount I won’t care if it costs me more, but I will switch to a Mac. I’m tired of corporations putting out crap and expecting the consumer to remain loyal. Principle and putting customers needs first still counts for something. In the long run it’s good business.
FREE!!!! I taught High School students how to use Microsoft products for the past 2 years. I see myself as a power user not necessarily an IT Technically savvy individual. I bought Vista w/ my new personal PC 2 years ago. It’s compatibility issues resulted in the disposal of several pieces of equipment and still had problems with the upgraded equipment. Due to this experience I have preached and will continue to preach about this issue as a marketing flop and now possible opportunity. Several/most school districts use Mac. With me preaching and the Mac direction of the younger generation it is no wonder Apple stock is moving.
Stop comlaining, as though Microsoft hasn’t been trash since 2000 was released, Linux or STFU.
Bill! Do you remember when you first started out and customer support was so important!
I purchased Vista ultimate wanting all the magic that you were touting and felt safe that when an upgrade became available I would be looked after………….Mistakes happen even in my business ……………but when they do I make certain that my customers leave me happy and more then willing to return knowing that integrity is the core of my business ethics………….A 10% discount offered to upgrade to your new Ultimate (W7) is not ethical considering I have been loyal with 4 machines under my roof ………..my wallet is not bottomless and Beta testing………………never again……..I effectively work for you for hundreds of hours and in my business your classified a non-payer.
I think Windows Vista got better after some service packs. In my honest opinion all Windows 7 is is another service pack… which you have to pay for. It’s what Vista should have been.
Let me make something clear Microsoft IS NOT going to give out Windows 7 for free to current Vista users they want to profit from it and they will. So if you want Windows 7 suck it up and go buy it, I would recommend buying the full copy even if you already have vista so in the future you don’t require two disk. Or better yet switch to a Mac I am soon.. $29 for an OS or $300???