We're upgrading our machines at our office. We're a small biz so we've abstained for quite some time from jumping on the Vista/Win7 bandwagon. However we're running into interoperability issues due to aging OSes.
There are upgrade licenses for Win7 Pro. For the cost I'd really like to get a few of these as opposed to the full versions of Win7 Pro however every vendor I've talked to states that I cannot do a clean install with this option. According to them I must do an upgrade. So essentially if I buy new hardware I have to waste the time to put WinXP on it then upgrade it to Windows 7 Pro.
Does anyone have experience with this? Do we really have to waste that kind of time or can we go with the upgrade path, keeping the XP licensing filed away and work clean installs of Win 7 Pro?
There are upgrade licenses for Win7 Pro. For the cost I'd really like to get a few of these as opposed to the full versions of Win7 Pro however every vendor I've talked to states that I cannot do a clean install with this option. According to them I must do an upgrade. So essentially if I buy new hardware I have to waste the time to put WinXP on it then upgrade it to Windows 7 Pro.
Does anyone have experience with this? Do we really have to waste that kind of time or can we go with the upgrade path, keeping the XP licensing filed away and work clean installs of Win 7 Pro?