Tag: Upgrade

Call it the legacy of Microsoft's Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 launched. Complaints range from endless reboots to refusals by Windows to accept Microsoft's assigned product keys.

As of Monday morning, Microsoft had answered about 2600 questions that poured into support forum regarding upgrades. At last count, around 1400 questions remained unanswered.

Users can do a "clean" installation of Windows 7 using an upgrade license to save $80 to $100 over the price of a "full" edition, a popular blog reports.

According to Paul Thurrott, who writes the Supersite for Windows blog, Microsoft's upgrade media and product keys can be used to do a full installationmicrosoft windows 7 upgrade of Windows 7 on PCs that do not have an earlier version of the OS

Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7 .

In a short support document posted to the Apple site, the company said it would soon revise Boot Camp, a utility that lets users run Windows and its applicwindows apple boot campations in a separate disk partition on an Intel-based Mac.

Time for new shoes? Stick to the classics.

There comes a time in every man's life when he will need to purchase a quality pair of dress shoes. With so many choices out there, we say stick to something clean and classica pair that will stand the test of time...and trends.

Instead of opting for your garden variety black or silver wristwatch this fall, stretch yourself a bit. Various hues of chocolate brown are taking over the watch world, so now's the time to indulge those cocoa cravings.