{"id":106,"date":"2007-01-29T12:45:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2007\/01\/do-not-buy-the-vista-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T17:45:52","slug":"do-not-buy-the-vista-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2007\/01\/do-not-buy-the-vista-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Do NOT buy the Vista upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&rsquo;t believe Microsoft&rsquo;s stupidity on this one, and the support costs are really going to hurt them in the long run.&nbsp; According to their <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx\/kb\/930985\/en-us\">support site<\/a>, there is no way to do a completely clean installation of a Vista upgrade.&nbsp; You have to put a copy of a previous operating system down first, then you can do a &ldquo;clean&rdquo; install (which wipes your hard drive anyway) from the Vista CD.&nbsp; Too bad if you&rsquo;ve tossed your XP CDs out when you bought Vista.&nbsp; Too bad if you don&rsquo;t want to waste the hour or two installing a system that is just going to be erased anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This is pure marketing stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>So, now I can only reinforce my original recommendations &ndash; don&rsquo;t upgrade to Vista.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s only worthwhile if you get it with a new PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&rsquo;t believe Microsoft&rsquo;s stupidity on this one, and the support costs are really going to hurt them in the long run.&nbsp; According to their support site, there is no way to do a completely clean installation of a Vista upgrade.&nbsp; You have to put a copy of a previous operating system down first, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}