Windows 8 upgrade - consumer confusion regarding installation options
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There's some confusion over installation options, and process. Especially when one wants to do a clean install.
I have Debian and Vista sharing a partition on my laptop. I boot Vista rarely. I am frustrated as is, that I have the 32bit version installed, which can't take advantage of all of my memory.
I did think about upgrading Vista from 32bit to 64bit but Lenovo pulled their Windows images from the support site. And I didn't get any recovery/installation disks with my Thinkpad.
A while back I'd heard there would be an affordable upgrade option available for Windows 8. So figured I'd just hang on.
Looking at this page though - it would seem that Microsoft are not encouraging upgrading from 32bit to 64 bit OSs via this path. There must be a bunch of people wanting to upgrade from say 32bit XP/Vista, to 64bit Windows 8.
There are work arounds / hacks for the install - but lots of confusion in the forums about how people should attempt a clean installation.
It shouldn't be this hard (or this confusing.) Why can't it be as simple as downloading an ISO and burning it to disk/usb? Activation could occur later by submitting your new product key (that you just bought) - and if necessary your old one.