I have read that this is hard to do. But someone at a computer magazine browbeat Microsoft into giving him one.
2007-02-15 06:20:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Are you trying to do a clean install from Vista? Is that your issue? I am a bit confused.
2007-02-15 06:30:20 · answer #1 · answered by chuck g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get a copy of Vista by purchasing it, but I would not buy it even if it were free, for the following reasons:
1. Vista's Debut is fraught with problems. Printers, video cards, and sound cards, for example, often worked with XP, but wont work with Vista until Microsoft gets around to publishing Vista drivers for them in about two years or so.
2. Even if you could get all the drivers, there are 114,000 or more viruses unique to Windows that are just waiting to infect Windows Operating Systems, slowing them down and causing hundreds of other problems. AntiVirus software will be mandantory, further slowing down your computer.
3. You will need dozens and dozens of bug fixes for Windows to (try!) to keep it working. Microsoft calls them "updates".
4. Microsoft will try to get still more money from you, with things like "activation" issues that frustrate people so much they wind up buying several copies of an operating system for a single computer because, when hardware is upgraded, Microsoft further frustrates users by requiring reactivation. If you change too many parts of your computer, Microsoft will want you to call them and explain why you shouldnt buy a new license for your computer. They even have many "false positives" which makes people with a
genuine copy of Windows feel like a criminal because it continuosly says it is fake.
In short, save your money and get Kubuntu instead for free and be free of virii as well. www.kubuntu.org
2007-02-15 14:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can get the full OEM version at www.newegg.com, it is alot cheaper there cause it isnt in the fancy case. Dont buy it at best buy or any storees like that. its a rip off for the pretty packaging.
2007-02-15 14:30:23 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
windows vista has now been released so if you can't buy it at staples then go to www.microsoft.com you do relize it is not free
2007-02-15 14:25:14 · answer #4 · answered by Shelly t 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
wate till a cleaner viserion
2007-02-15 14:24:19 · answer #5 · answered by zpd10@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go buy it, that would be the best and easiest way to get one.
2007-02-15 14:24:14 · answer #6 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋