Fastest time for move from Vista to new OS is 1 hour and 24 minutes; clean installs are faster
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Computerworld – Microsoft said Friday that some “in-place” upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users over 20 hours to complete.
The best that users can hope for is a 1 hour and 24 minute process, said Chris Hernandez, who works in the Windows deployment team, in a company blog published Friday.
So-called “clean” installs, where the user overwrites an existing edition of Windows to end up with the OS, but no former data or applications, take less time: from 27 to 46 minutes.
Hernandez said the in-place upgrade times were obtained from lab machines in three different configurations — labeled low, mid-range and high-end — with three simulated users: a medium user, a heavy user and a super user. The profiles differed in the amount of data and the number of applications that were on the PC before the upgrade to Windows 7.
