Microsoft has turned its attention to how current Windows users might upgrade to one of those versions. For the most part, news is that any XP or Vista user will qualify for a upgrade pricing for any version of Windows 7. There’s still no word on how much the full retail vs. the upgrade packages will cost, but you’ll get some discount for your loyalty. The fine print is in how you’ll be able to upgrade your machine.If you’re a Vista user, your upgrade options will be the simplest. Users of any of the following — Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate — will be able to upgrade without losing applications and data to the comparable version of Windows 7.
In other words: You can easily upgrade Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium, Vista Business to Windows 7 Professional, and Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate. You’ll have to keep the language currently on your Vista installation too, but I doubt this will be a hardship for many users.
All other Vista users — and all XP users — will unfortunately have to do a so-called "clean install" of the operating system, which means you’ll lose all the data and programs on your hard drive and will have to reinstall apps and restore data from backup after you install the OS. If you’re switching versions from, say Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional, you’ll have to do a clean install. If you’re jumping from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Win 7… you guessed it, clean install.
via Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech.
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What is the advantage of doing that…..
i mean i’ve used windows 7 beta and its nearly same as my vista ultimate except few options…
or it is just a kinda service pack for vista
Its officially available only because its a Beta Version, and How can an OS be like a Service Pack to a previous OS.
If it would have been a service back, Microsoft would have given a Service pack 2 to Vista. Why would it spend so much money developing and marketing a new OS?
No, its not a series of updates but in sync with Mojave Experiment is a New Operating System.