UK to miss out on USB installer for Windows 7 from Microsoft

By admin

October

26

2009

Although netbook users in the UK will not be able to do it yet users in the US will now get the chance to use their USB memory sticks to install the newly release Windows 7 operating system.

For most users of netbooks the lack of any kind of optical drive has often been a serious issue when loading Windows as users have, until now, had to install the software by burning an ISO onto a DVD.

Users will need to change settings in the BIOS of their netbooks in order to make the USB device bootable but once this has been done users will be able to download Windows 7 directly to a network drive, which can them simply plugged into the netbook thanks to the offers by Microsoft’s US store.

The fact that the Starter edition of Windows 7, which has been created to fully support netbook systems,  is currently unavailable in this format seems to be a little bit odd although the Home Premium, Professional versions of the Operating System have been released.

Netbook users will also need to have either Windows XP or Windows Vista installed in order to qualify for the upgrade offer that has been provided by Microsoft.

The UK will currently not be getting this Operating System upgrade from Microsoft so only US users will be able to benefit from this option and a spokesman recently advised “This option is available in the US, but we have nothing to officially announce in the UK at this stage.” The reason behind the UK not receiving the OS upgrade was something that Microsoft was unwilling to talk about at the moment.

It is assume that users will need to use that standard method of burning the OS to DVD and the Microsoft UK stores has confirmed that it will be allowing users to download both the upgrade and the full version of Windows 7

Source – PC Pro