Answers from Windows 7 Upgrade Install Hack post coming on Monday

After putting up my Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know post earlier this week, I have been receiving a lot of great comments and questions being sent in to me, posted in the Blog comments, etc. If you have more, keep them coming as I always love the feedback from all of you. Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to answer nearly as many of them as I would have liked to this week (You may recall my “Work-life balance. What a scam…” post on that topic); however, starting Monday at 8:00 am PST, I’ll have several of these answers coming here to the Blog. 

I’ll have multiple posts going up on Monday, with the topics and questions coming from ones I have received from all of you this past week. Several of the questions you all have submitted are great topics to cover and a quick reply in the comments section really wouldn’t do them justice. Because of this, I will provide what I believe and hope will be more complete answers to your questions, that will hopefully be more useful for you and all that read them. For those of you that have been following me over the years, as I’ve mentioned before, that’s all part of not being the person who writes the licenses and policies but gets to try and explain them. (You also know then that I RARELY ever Blog on the weekend either).

One answer in a post I will be putting up is about the supposed “target” (as some people seem to be phrasing it) of my Windows 7 Hack post, since it seems that some people are taking guesses and even stating these guesses as fact. In one instance, it was called out that a specific person was supposedly the “target” of the post and it was a complete impossibility that the person someone else wrote was a “target” of my post could have been. The complete irony is, I would have called this person out specifically as the poster-child on the RIGHT thing to do had I been aware of it. (Yes, I’ll include the details of that in one of Monday’s post as well).

So tune into the Blog on Monday and I’ll have several of those posts coming here, starting at 8:00 am PST. Well, maybe if I’m ahead of schedule I’ll start at 7:00 am PST, but 8:00 would be the latest. :-)

Thank you and have a wonderful day,

Eric Ligman – Follow me on TWITTER and RSS
Global Partner Experience Lead
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group
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• Anonymous
  October 31, 2009
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  November 01, 2009
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• Anonymous
  November 01, 2009
  We don't need more answers. What we need is an apology for a badly thought out upgrade process. It never occurred to you bright sparks at Redmond that someone might install their legitimate upgrade on a new drive?

• Anonymous
  November 01, 2009
  I realize you must have a tough job. "that’s all part of not being the person who writes the licenses and policies but gets to try and explain them." What about those of us who are trying to pay for upgrade licenses due to the fact that we cannot afford new computers or full version licenses? Just a little empathy on the part of Microsoft would go a long way.

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  November 02, 2009
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