If one can transition from XP to Vista and then from Vista to Win7 then
it seems pretty clear that it can be done... even if not neatly.
It reminds me of the early days of the IBM System 360 when engineering
changes were coming hot and heavy on the circuit boards. EC's were
implemented with deletes and jumper wires installed on pins. If a board
was many levels down upgrading it sequentially through the various
levels might find 20 wires removed but 10 of them re-installed before
the end of the process. People longed for software that would analyze
the adds and deletes through many levels of change and produce the "net
change list". I don't think it ever happened.
But the hardware stuff is tedious and manual. Maybe there's a net
change list for XP to Win7 as well but it wouldn't be worth it to trace
it out. Just go for the brute force changes... still pretty fast at
software installation speeds.
Chuck Norcutt
John Hudson wrote:
> I participated in a software seminar last last week where the presenter
> stated that a software developer is in the final stages of presenting a
> product that will convert directly from XP to Windows 7 without having to
> transit through Vista.
>
> The seminar presenter was one of Canada's most esteemed people in his field.
>
> In the normal scheme of things I was led to understand that an upgrade from
> XP directly into Windows 7 bypassing Vista altogether was not what had been
> contemplated by Bill Gates.
>
> jh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JOHN DUGGAN" <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Windows 7 "upgrade", was: Zuiko 250/f2.0 samples
>
>
>
> Regards
> John Duggan,
> Wales, UK
> Chuck,
> Thanks for that link,
> It seems that Vista to Windoze 7 is straightforward but
> XP (which I quite like) could turn out to be a pain in the backside!
> Food for thought!
> ........................................................................
> --- On Sun, 8/11/09, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> For Windoze 7, MS differentiates between what they
>> call an "upgrade" or
>>> a "custom installation" although both use the
>> same software package.
>>> You can "upgrade" from Vista which replaces the
>> underlying OS but leaves
>>> all your apps in place. From XP you are required
>> to do a "custom
>>> installation" which means starting from scratch and
>> re-installling all
>>> the old apps.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
>
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