Talk:Windows Anytime Upgrade

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This article reads like an advertisement for Windows Anytime Upgrade, and should probably be reworked to be more encyclopedic. 128.2.247.40 (talk) 12:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Sept 25, 2009
I just tried to do this "anytime upgrade" they speak of on a customer's laptop. There is no such thing. When you click on it, it takes you to this website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/anytime-upgrade-overview.aspx which will sell you an upgrade install DVD. This DVD can only be run from within your operating system, making a CLEAN INSTALL IMPOSSIBLE. It hosed the clients computer, did not install any of his drivers and did not keep any of his programs. It did however keep duplicates of everything on the hard drive. When I attempted to format the drive and do a clean install with the DVD, it told me I must already have a licensed copy of Vista. What a piece of crap! Why do they lie about it? This is the same thing as going from Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro. Anyways, this whole article needs changed by someone who can actually write because it's a complete lie.

18 Dec 09
I have a different problem with Windows Anytime Upgrade - "WAU". I have Windows 7 Home Premium

[Background: I have Windows 7 in France on a new pc (reasonable size: AMD Phenom II, Asus M4N78-AM, nVidia GeForce 8200, 4096 MB SDRAM, etc), itself an upgrade, using a CD, from Vista.

When I typed in Windows Anytime Upgrade in Vista, I got no response, so I jumped through a lot of hoops and eventually managed to buy the CD for upgrading to Windows 7. That worked perfectly (and 7 is a joy after the two months of strugglng with Vista)]

I want to upgrade from 7 Home premium to Windows 7 Ultimate (Intégrale in France), and eventually managed to persuade Microsoft France to put a link in their website - unlike the previously existing link which didn't work - to allow me to buy the upgrade key; (leaving aside the incomprehensible messages they e-mailed me in some kind of html unreadable by Firefox - I am no geek even if I have written some html, and could not read them] eventually the key arrived, and I duly backed everything up and tried to upgrade. Now comes the bit I want to introduce to this discussion:

The instruction is 1 ( do back up and otherwise make sure all ready) 2 click start (cliquez sur le bouton Démarrer) 3 in the Search box type Windows Anytime Upgrade (dans la zone de recherche tapez 'WAU') 4 Click on WAU 5 enter upgrade key and click Next (tapez sur votre clef de mise à niveau et cliquez sur Suivant) 6 follow the instructions to complete upgrade ... (suivez les instructions pour terminer votre lise à niveau ...)

My problem is at step 3: after typing in Windows Anytime Upgrade, I get a box with research results saying 'There is nothing which correspends to your search request' ('Aucun élément ne correspond à votre recherche').

[The box suggests trying Help & Support on the pc, which gives 7 possible solutions; of which only no.6 is relevant: 'upgrade to another version of Windows 7 by buying an upgrade on-line (mettre à niveau vers une autre édition de Windows 7 à l'aide de l'achat de mise à niveau en ligne) - and if you try this; it merely tells you - wrongly for France - how to buy the upgrade on line.]

Effectively I have bought a key to upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate but have no way of entering it. Typing Windows Anytime Upgrade into my pc gives no usable result.

Bottom line: Windows Anytime Upgrade is a snare and a delusion. On a perfectly respectable pc running windows 7 it doesn't work. How you can put this into the article I don't know. (Ardj (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2009 (UTC)) ardj

Try typing "Mise à niveau express Windows" instead. That might work better. 74.211.59.62 (talk) 03:59, 27 July 2011 (UTC)