Windows 7 delivered early to U.K. customers
(Credit:
Microsoft)
Some lucky Brits received their preordered copy of Windows 7 earlier Monday--several days before it goes on sale--proving that there is at least one good thing to result from postal strikes.
One excited CNET U.K. reader--Tom Brown, from Hertfordshire--dropped Crave UK a line to express his delight that he had come home to a package from retailer PC World. It was his copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, which he preordered a couple of months ago.
Naturally, he was confused. "(PC World) sent me an e-mail saying that Windows 7 would not leave their warehouse until the 21 October--a day before the official release," he told us in an e-mail.
The reason appears to be the looming threat of industrial action at Royal Mail.
Read more of "Windows 7 delivered early to U.K. customers" at Crave UK.
If you insert the disk into your computer WHILE RUNNING WINDOWS (Vista for sure, XP perhaps) and start the install process (which yes, you still can do a clean install or install to seperate partition to allow dualboot), it will KEEP YOUR OTHER OS BOOTS INTACT. It just has to be aware of the bce files.
ive had my windows 7 ultimate copy for a good while now (I'm using it to write this comment, in fact...)
- by gopha October 21, 2009 3:40 AM PDT
- It's not just U.K. customers. I live in Finland and Amazon UK sent out my preordered copy of Windows 7 on the 20th as well.
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