One of those good/bad days

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Though the badnesses are only minor annoyances, really.

Good: My copy of Windows 7 for the desktop arrived. (I pre-ordered in the narrow window in June when it was on offer for $50.)

Bad: I left it on my desk at work, rather than bringing it home.

Good: A package containing the new Wheel of Time book shipped today.

Bad: The Naomi Novik book that's in the same package is not, as I thought, the new Temeraire book, but an omnibus of the first three. Which I've already bought twice -- once in US paperback, once in UK hardback -- and in the case of Black Powder War, possibly the weakest of the three, three times because I lost the paperback under the dining table after an exhausting trip. Oh well; at least I can trade the individual volumes and save a few inches of shelf space. And I get the included short story, which I wouldn't have deliberately paid hardcover money for.

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Windows 7

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I need to get the three-license copy of the new OS -- one for the desktop, one for my laptop, one for the husband's laptop (which he hardly ever uses -- please, remind me again why I bought it for him?).

Re: Windows 7

[ellarien]

My laptop is new enough to qualify for the free upgrade, whenever HP gets around to sending it; this copy is for the desktop, which is a couple of years old. (The laptops in the icon are both running XP, and I'm not going to try upgrading them. Behemoth is pretty much retired anyway -- and was struggling mightily just to run XP, towards the end -- and Butterfly is the work-provided machine, which probably has a better chance of lasting me another year if I don't mess with it.)

I did bring the box home tonight, but I'm a little nervous. The last time I changed Windows versions on a live machine was probably back in the early 1990s, when 3.1 replaced 3.0.