Up until now, whenever I encountered a new machine with anything less than a Windows 7 Ultimate edition, I would wiped the machine clean, and then install Windows 7 Ultimate edition from scratch. Recently I purchased a Asus Eee Slate (Windows 7 based tablet) for development purpose, and since it was brought from Microsoft store with "Customized with Microsoft signature", I wanted to try out the user experience and see if Microsoft could improve the out-of-the-box experience by getting rid of crapware and tune the machine properly (which is what the Signature initiative supposed to do), so I haven't wipped clean the machine yet. So far my experience with Signature is just lukewarm, with pretty darn negative feeling about the OS plus all additional software taking about half of the harddisk space.
But once again it comes to the time when I realized that there are features I need but not provided by Windows 7 Home Premium edition, namely the Traditional Chinese handwriting input. So here comes my journey of upgrade the Windows 7 Home Premium edition to Ultimate edition.
Before I can perform the upgrade, I need to connect the tablet to the Internet, so I did all the WiFi connection preparation work. After then I started the Windows Anytime Upgrade , entered my Windows 7 Ultimate edition product ID, and then followed a few on screen instruction, and seeing the machine starting to get online and attempted to do the upgrade.
It failed. And I was like "what the hell". So I tried it again, still failed. And so I rebooted the machine, tried it again, and still failed, but this time there's some new Windows Update going on at the back, which was odd since I always spent hours yesterday to perform Windows Update to make sure that the machine has every single update applied. My guess is that the Windows Anytime Upgrade triggered some new updates. Still the update is still going, I might as well leave it running, and see if I have better luck later.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
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