Is it possible to buy Windows 98, then upgrade to Windows XP and then upgrade to 7?

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Yolyx

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Hai!

I have a Macbook Air early 2014, but I really don't like Mac OS X. At home I have a upgrade form WIndows 98 to Windows XP disc, and a upgrade from WIndows XP to Windows 7 disc. So I wondered instead of buying Windows 7, could I buy Windows 98 (Since its much cheaper) and upgrade it to windows 7 using all those discs? By that I mean install 98 on my mac, upgrade it to XP using my other disc, and then finally upgrading XP to 7 with the last disc.

Thanks for your patience! :)
 
Just buy a copy of Windows 7 somewhere. You can get it for like $75.

And your crazy for not liking OS X.
 
You can use the Win 7 upgrade disc to do a clean install, no need to install and upgrade each OS.

You're not crazy for not liking OS X, I didn't like it either when I had a Mac Mini a few years ago. I installed Win 7 using Bootcamp and found I preferred Win 7 over OS X. I ended up giving the Mac Mini to my daughter who also preferred Win 7 over OS X.
 
Just installed the windows 10 technical preview via bootcamp. After Windows 10 is released I will install that, because it is said its gonna be really cheap or even free! :)
 
strollin said:
You can use the Win 7 upgrade disc to do a clean install, no need to install and upgrade each OS.
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I do not think that anyone answered the original question of the post. I am sure he is aware of any of the solutions offered, but that was not an answer to his question.

I think that theoretically it should be possible to go that route. (if you have the time to do so, because it will take a lot of time.)
 
EINREB said:
I do not think that anyone answered the original question of the post. I am sure he is aware of any of the solutions offered, but that was not an answer to his question.

I think that theoretically it should be possible to go that route. (if you have the time to do so, because it will take a lot of time.)
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It's a waste to do that, because you won't get good performance from an upgrade like that. Besides, you'd want to install 64-bit. You can't upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit; you need to do a clean install.
 
There's a youtube video somewhere of upgrading from 1.0 through XP or maybe Vista/7.

It'd be a gigantic waste of time and you'd have a lot of weird dependencies (also 32 bit only) when you could just cut to the chase and install the version you want from the start.
 
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